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No, Mr. Martinez, the UN should not be heard in a matter pertaining only to Argentines themselves.
Argentine is a sovereign nation, it has not become some protectorate of the UN.
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Quote:A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues.
The justices, by a 5-4 vote, granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administration, which has been in an escalating standoff at the border with Texas and had objected to an appellate ruling in favor of the state.
The concertina wire along roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers) of the Rio Grande near the border city of Eagle Pass is part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s broader fight with the administration over immigration enforcement.
Abbott also has authorized installing floating barriers in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass and allowed troopers to arrest and jail thousands of migrants on trespassing charges. The administration also is challenging those actions in federal court.
A federal appeals court last month forced federal agents to stop cutting the concertina wire. Large numbers of migrants have crossed at Eagle Pass in recent months.
In court papers, the administration said the wire impedes Border Patrol agents from reaching migrants as they cross the river and that, in any case, federal immigration law trumps Texas’ own efforts to stem the flow of migrants into the country.
Texas officials have argued that federal agents cut the wire to help groups crossing illegally through the river before taking them in for processing.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor sided with the administration. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas voted with Texas.
Quote:The partisan January 6 Committee deleted more than 100 encrypted files just days before Republicans resumed control of the House, Chair of the House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) revealed Monday.
The missing files are significant because they might contain information reportedly used to prosecute former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia. Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, colluded with the committee to obtain information to prosecute Trump, Politico reported on January 10.
The partisan committee told lawmakers it lost or does not have much of the information they discovered during their January 6 hearings. Yet, if the Politico report is true, the committee gave Willis the information to prosecute Trump before deleting it.
Loudermilk’s forensics team identified 117 files that went missing on January 1, 2023. The forensics analysis suggests the committee either deleted or encrypted the files. Loudermilk demanded the passwords for the encrypted files, which could contain interviews and depositions that run contrary to the partisan committee’s narrative.
“It’s obvious that [the J6 committee] went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation,” Loudermilk told Fox News. “It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules.”
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“We do know there was plenty of intelligence that there was going to be an attack on the Capitol. So Secret Service knew of it. The FBI knew of it. Department of Defense had intelligence. Homeland Security had intelligence,” he added. “That intelligence was sent to the Capitol Police Intelligence Division—but it never got passed on any further. The chief did not know about it.”
Quote:The Georgia Senate is set this week to authorize a subpoena-powered investigative committee to probe the alleged corruption of Fani Willis, Fulton County’s district attorney, Breitbart News exclusively learned Monday.
The potential committee is significant because Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ® refused to launch a criminal investigation into Willis last week, citing the need for a currently non-operational oversight committee to open the probe.
The proposed Georgia Senate committee could hold subpoena power as soon as later this week to “secure the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents and materials” related to Willis, according to a resolution put forth by Georgia state Sen. Greg Dolezal (R-Forsyth). The committee, the only type of its kind in the state of Georgia, would comprise nine senators, only three of whom would be Democrats.
“The Georgia legislature has a responsibility to hold public officials accountable,” Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones exclusively told Breitbart News. “Recent reports have been deeply troubling and I appreciate Sen. Dolezal’s leadership on this issue.”
The timeline for the creation of the committee appears imminent. Dolezal will introduce the resolution Monday. Then it will likely be assigned to the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday. Upon approval from the Rules Committee, a Senate floor vote will be scheduled as soon as this week. If passed by the Senate, the Committee on Assignments will appoint the members.
Quote:After two decades, the legendary burger chain In-N-Out Burger has been forced to flee Democrat-run Oakland in Democrat-run California.
Oakland’s sole In-N-Out Burger location is still profitable. That’s not the problem. The problem is that Oakland is run exclusively by Democrats, and that means crime — lots of it. Per a statement from the company’s Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick, the location will close for good next month:
Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies. Our last day of business in Oakland will be March 24, 2004.
We are grateful for the local community, which has supported us for over 18 years, and we recognize that this closure negatively impacts our Associates and their families. Additionally, this location remains a busy and profitable one for the company, but our top priority must be the safety and wellbeing of our Customers and Associates – we cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment.
Oakland employees will be given the option to transfer to another In-N-Out location or accept a severance package.
Things are so bad in Oakland, ABC 7 reports that another fast food joint in the same strip mall moved to drive-thru only last year due to all the car break-ins.
Crime is soaring in Oakland. Per an August 2023 report, murders are up 37 percent compared to four years earlier. Robberies jumped 30 percent. Car break-ins exploded by 40 percent, and car thefts “more than doubled.”
Quote:The Chicago suburb of Oak Brook has been beset with an increase in retail theft and burglaries over the last year, and police say the leading culprits have been recently arrived illegal border crossers who have filtered out to the suburb from Chicago.
The Oak Brook Police Department reports that 47 recently arrived illegal aliens have been arrested in connection with retail thefts and home and car burglaries just since October and more than 175 since last year, according to Newsbreak.
Officials of the suburb — which is only about 25 minutes west of downtown Chicago and only minutes south of O’Hare International Airport where hundreds of illegals have been sheltering for months — noted that the thieves often use bags lined with sheets of tinfoil in an attempt to thwart store anti-theft protection devices at entrances, the New York Post reported.
The issue has been ongoing in the suburb, especially inside the Oak Brook shopping mall.
As far back as 2021 the Oak Brook Police Department reported a gang of about 14 individuals entering stores and stealing all they could carry.
Quote:The U.S. military has ended its search for two Navy SEALs after they went missing during a mission in the Arabian Sea to interdict Iranian weapons headed for Yemen, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said Sunday.
“We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed to deceased,” the command said in a statement.
“The search and rescue operation for the two Navy SEALs reported missing during the boarding of an illicit dhow carrying Iranian advanced conventional weapons Jan. 11 concluded and we are now conducting recovery operations,” it said.
“We mourn the loss of our two Naval Special Warfare warriors, and we will forever honor their sacrifice and example. Our prayers are with the SEALs’ families, friends, the U.S. Navy, and the entire Special Operations community during this time,” said Army Gen. Michael Kurilla, Centcom commander.
According to the Associated Press, the SEALs were part of a raid on an unflagged ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Houthi forces in Yemen. Officials told the outlet that one of the SEALs had fallen into the sea during boarding and another SEAL went in after him to try to save him.
The pair began their mission while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was still in hospital being treated for complications from surgery for prostate cancer.
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Quote:According to a report from The Times of London, the UK Home Office — the government body responsible for controlling immigration and protecting the country’s borders — has signed a contract worth £36 million for the hiring of a “charter of vessel(s) to support small boats operations in the Dover Straits”.
The contract, which is set to come into force in April and will last until at least the end of March next year, will mean that private vessels will assist the Border Force in picking up migrants in the English Channel and bringing them ashore in Britain.
The government was forced into seeking private assistance to deal with illegal migration because of further delays to plans to replace the ageing fleet of cutters currently used by the Border Force, some of which are over 20 years old and need frequent repairs to remain operable.
While the government set aside £224 million to begin procuring five new cutters and six coastal patrol vessels in April of 2022, the process of replacing the current Border Force fleet was first pushed back to April of 2024 and now is not expected to begin until March of 2026.
In addition to the £36 million earmarked for private boats, the government also shelled out £9 million on refurbishing the outdated Border Force vessels to hopefully keep them running for a further five years.
The revelations come as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is seeking to finally implement the long-awaited plan to send illegal boat migrants to Rwanda, which still needs approval from the House of Lords.
Quote:More than a million leftist activists took to the streets of Germany in protest over the weekend amid growing calls to ban the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as it surges in the polls.
In a welcome distraction for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government — which has become deeply unpopular over economic stagnation, mass migration and most recently a farmer uprising against its globalist agenda — the legacy media, political elites and activist networks have rallied around a common target, the AfD.
According to organisers, over 1.4 million people took to the streets in protest against the populist Alternative for Germany party over the weekend, under the banner of slogans such as: “Against Fascism, Populism and the Right” and “Demo against the right – not an inch from fascism”, broadcaster NTV reports.
The protests were urged on by Chancellor Scholz in an apparent attempt to change the narrative from his struggling coalition government.
“Right-wing extremists are attacking our democracy. We are all called upon to take a clear stand: for our democratic Germany. And for our more than 20 million friends, work colleagues and neighbours who have a migration background,” Sholz said in a video released on Friday.
Well, the ones protesting on the streets are the leftists, not the far right wing. Do you see the irony here?
Quote:Tens of thousands of people were without electricity and hundreds of trains were canceled on Monday after the latest in a wave of winter storms lashed Britain and Ireland with heavy rain and wind gusts of almost 100 miles (160 kilometers) an hour.
The U.K.’s Met Office weather service had issued an unusual blanket wind warning for the whole country before Storm Isha, which reached its peak overnight. A 99-mile-an-hour gust was recorded at Brizlee Wood radar station in northeastern England.
Ireland and the U.K. have been hammered since fall by a series of gusty and wet storms that have toppled trees, knocked out power and led to flooding along river valleys. Isha is the ninth named storm since September.
The railway operator for Scotland halted train service Sunday night and into Monday's rush hour. Network Rail, which owns the railway infrastructure in England, Scotland and Wales, said it was placing speed limits on most lines to prevent engines from running into fallen trees and other debris, and trains would be affected into the morning commute.
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In China Any Excuse is Valid for the CCP
Quote:The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual census of imprisoned reporters this weekend, and found China was once again the world’s worst jailer of journalists, followed closely by Myanmar, with Belarus in third place.
CPJ said those top three countries accounted for “more than a third of those incarcerated on the day of the census,” which was December 1. China jailed 44 journalists, Myanmar 43, and Belarus 28.
The report noted that China could be even worse than the census indicated because heavy censorship makes it difficult to determine exactly who has been jailed, but Beijing has clearly been on a widening “media crackdown since crushing the Hong Kong democracy movement of 2019 with a draconian “national security law” in 2020.
China’s methods have also shifted slightly toward a growing tendency to charge journalists with espionage or subversion, rather than “spreading fake news.” The report found that 19 of China’s 44 imprisoned journalists are from the oppressed Uyghur Muslim minority, against which China has been committing genocide since at least 2017.
China’s imprisoned journalists often face lengthy “pretrial detentions” that silence them long before they have a day in court. A prime example is Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, who was jailed in Hong Kong for almost 1,100 days before his “trial” even started. Lai pleaded not guilty to sedition and collusion with foreign powers – charges created by the Hong Kong national security law – on January 2.
Myanmar almost caught up to China as a jailer of journalists thanks to the ruling junta’s war against independent media. Belarus likewise went on a reporter-jailing spree after protests erupted over the shady “re-election” of dictator Alexander Lukashenko in 2020. Lukashenko put a twist on the authoritarian mania for accusing reporters of sedition by charging his opponents with “extremism” instead.
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Quote:An Iranian soldier killed five of his comrades in their barracks dormitory on Sunday in the province of Kerman, the scene of the devastating Islamic State suicide bombing on January 3.
According to Iranian state media, the unidentified 20-year-old soldier entered the barracks at a base in Baghin, a city in Kerman, and started shooting other soldiers while they were resting.
The shooter was reportedly taken into custody with two Kalashnikov rifles, six magazines, and 180 rounds of ammunition on his person. He stole two vehicles in his unsuccessful bid to flee the scene of the attack.
The commander of the Baghin base, Brig. Gen. Amir Gholamalian, told reporters the motive for the shooting was “still unknown” as of Sunday evening. Golamalian said the suspect was under interrogation to determine the reason for his actions.
IranWire described the shooter as a “conscript,” a reference to Iran’s policy of mandatory military service for men aged 19 and over. Iran has a history of discipline problems and inside attacks, including a similar shooting incident at a firing range in 2017. Some critics of the regime’s policies blame these attacks on the practice of conscripting unwilling men from restless regions.
Kerman is the birthplace of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in 2020 while coordinating terrorist attacks against Americans in that country. The regime in Tehran declared Soleimani a “martyr” and required its subjects to worship him as such.
Quote:Authorities in Turkey are investigating eight bodies that washed up in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, including two found Monday on a beach in the vacation resort of Serik.
The Antalya governor's office said one body is believed to be a Turkish citizen who was reported missing. Authorities believe the seven other bodies discovered over the past week may be migrants from a boat that went missing off the coast near the Syria-Lebanon border last month on its way to Cyprus.
An estimated 90 people were on board the boat that disappeared on Dec. 11, the governor´s office said, citing information provided by the Lebanese embassy in Turkey.
An evaluation of currents, winds and waves indicates that the victims may have been dragged toward the Antalya coastline, the office said in a statement.
In Lebanon, a lawyer who follows migrants' cases, Mohammed Sablouh, said the boat left northern Lebanon with about 85 people on board, including 30 children.
Sablouh said contact was lost with another boat that left Lebanon on Thursday with about 50 or 60 people on board.
Quote:Israeli authorities have reportedly foiled a planned terror attack in Jerusalem by two Arab residents of East Jerusalem who had pledged loyalty to the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS.
The Israeli security forces, including both the Israel Police and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), said that the two would-be terrorists had hoped to detonate a truck bomb near the Israeli parliament, or Knesset.
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Police said that the suspects, aged 19 and 20, were arrested on December 26 in their homes in Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem. During a search, security forces found chemicals that were believed to be intended for use in making explosive devices, along with a notebook with instructions on preparing explosives and ISIS materials.
An ISIS flag was found on one of the Hamas terrorists killed during the October 7 attack (above).
ISIS was largely defeated several years ago, when U.S.-led forces ended the organization’s territorial “caliphate” and killed the group’s leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, in 2019.
Unlike the war against Hamas, the U.S. did not demand that the terrorists of ISIS receive their own territorial state at the end of the conflict.
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Quote:The United Nations requested to be allowed to participate in the ongoing Argentine Congress debates regarding the massive small-government omnibus bill presented by President Javier Milei in December, local media reported over the weekend.
The formal request, issued by the Regional Representative for South America of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Jan Jarab, seeks permission from the heads of the three committees that are debating the bill to be allowed to realize online “virtual expositions” to Congress on the U.N.’s “perspective” on how the bill relates to international human rights obligations.
“We would like to present the perspective that emanates from our mandate – that is, from international human rights obligations and standards,” the U.N. letter read.
The U.N.’s request was forwarded to Congress by Argentine lawmaker Germán Martínez, who leads the parliamentary block of the Union for the Nation, a socialist coalition represented by former socialist Economy Minister Sergio Massa in last year’s presidential election and which represents the previous Argentine government led by socialist former President Alberto Fernández.
Martínez published a copy of the letter on social media on Saturday evening. The lawmaker demanded that the U.N. be allowed to debate among duly elected Argentine lawmakers, claiming it is “unacceptable to prevent the voice of the United Nations from being heard.”
The 351-page, 664-article-long omnibus bill Milei presented, titled “Basic and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines,” seeks to implement significant sweeping reforms to the Argentine state in matters of the economy, taxes, politics, security, education, and the nation’s electoral system.
No, Mr. Martinez, the UN should not be heard in a matter pertaining only to Argentines themselves.
Argentine is a sovereign nation, it has not become some protectorate of the UN.
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