Saturday 30 December 2023

14 Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens in 2023 under Biden's Border Polices

During 2023, 14 Americans have been killed by illegal aliens as Democrat President Joe Biden’s border crisis continues to run out of control.

An unknown number of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants are murdered every year by illegal immigrants who’ve been permitted by the federal government to remain unlawfully in the country.

These unknown numbers are potentially in the hundreds if not thousands.

The blame for many if not all of those murders has now been laid at the feet of Biden due to his decidedly lax policies of non-enforcement of the nation’s border security and immigration laws, according to Breitbart.

The outlet highlighted just a few of the most egregious cases of murders committed within the past year by illegal immigrants against U.S. citizens and legal migrants that can be linked to the policies of the current administration.

Just this month, Breitbart reported that a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lizbeth Medina was found dead in a bathtub in her Texas home by her mother, after which a 23-year-old illegal alien named Rafael Govea Romero was arrested and charged with the murder by police.

In August, on the first day of school in Ohio, 11-year-old Aidan Clark was killed when the bus he was riding on crashed and flipped over after it was struck by a minivan driven by a drunk driver identified as 35-year-old illegal alien Hermanio Joseph.

In June, a Texas grandmother named Diane Hill Luckett, 68, was mortally injured and died about a week later after her vehicle was struck by a car driven by 37-year-old illegal alien Anastacio Bemol Mendoza.

Mendoza flew through a red light and fled the scene.

He later admitted to police that he’d been drunk and high on cocaine and meth at the time of the incident.

In May, Florida’s St. John’s County Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Kunovich died shortly after he collapsed following a physical struggle with 18-year-old illegal alien Virjilio Aguilar-Mendez.

Perhaps the most notorious of such instances occurred in April in Texas when 38-year-old illegal alien Francisco Oropeza Perez-Torres shot and killed all five members of a Honduran family who’d legally migrated to the U.S.

In virtually all of those incidents and more, the murderers had been apprehended at the border after entering the country illegally — if not been previously deported back to their nation of origin — but had been processed by government officials and released into the interior of the country.

It is rather unfortunate — some might even argue it is deliberate — that there is a decided lack of definitive numbers on how many U.S. citizens and legal migrants are killed annually by illegal immigrants.

Estimates range from as low as a few dozen or a few hundred to perhaps as many as a few thousand per year.

However, regardless of how high or low that figure might be there is still a level of accountability and blame that can be attributed to the Biden administration’s policies that have allowed criminal illegal immigrants to enter and reside in the country — an unknown number of whom go on to commit more crimes against citizens, legal residents, and other illegal migrants.

In fact, according to the most recent numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 15,000 “criminal noncitizens” were arrested by Border Patrol agents in FY23 — an unknown number of whom were later processed and released instead of deported — which included at least 29 known murderers.

ronically, a Heritage Foundation report in June — which also highlighted some of the horror stories of murderous illegal migrants in the U.S. — President Biden’s policies are actually proving quite deadly for the same migrants that his administration purports to help with its lax enforcement policies.

Hundreds of migrants have died while making the dangerous cross-border trek.

Thousands more have been assaulted, robbed, or sexually abused.

These crimes are carried out by criminal illegal immigrants who have taken advantage of Biden’s welcoming policies to prey upon the weak and less fortunate.

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Hong Kong's 'Vaccine Ambassador' Drops Dead at 57

Hong Kong actress Kathy Chow, who served as the Chinese Communist Party-controlled region’s Covid “vaccine ambassador,” has been found dead at just 57 years old.

The circumstances surrounding Chow’s sudden death have been raising suspicions after her medical records were leaked online.

Chow, who was known for her roles in broadcaster TVB’s television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, died on December 11.

Her studio shared news of Chow’s death on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on December 12.

According to her studio, Chow died following the “unsuccessful treatment” of an “illness.”

“May there be no disease in heaven, and may we know each other again in the next life!” it said.

According to Hong Kong entertainment website Dim Sum Daily, Chinese screenwriter Tan Fei had initially dispelled the rumors, stating that Chow was alive and urged people to not spread false information.

A former TVB political reporter also reportedly said that Chow was still in hospital undergoing treatment.

However, her death was later confirmed by her former partner, Hong Kong actor Ray Lui.

Lui, who is now married to Chinese businesswoman Yang Xiaojuan, mourned Chow’s death on Weibo late on December 12.

“I couldn’t calm down for a long time after hearing this news,” he wrote.

“Thank you for bringing so much beauty to the world.

“I hope you will continue to laugh heartily in the next world.”

Despite initial claims suggesting that Chow had died while being treated for an “illness,” her medical records were leaked online showing she was found dead after suffering from sudden heart failure.

A photo of Chow’s medical records began circulating on social media.

The records show she was found “unresponsive” and had collapsed because her “heart stopped.”

Chow was rushed to hospital where she was declared after her heart had been stopped for over an hour.

According to the leaked document, the patient was found lying on the floor by her colleagues at about 10 am on December 11.

She had lost consciousness and her heartbeat had stopped for an hour when she was taken to the hospital, the medical record shows.

Chinese authorities have detained a hospital employee suspected of leaking her medical records.

The Shunyi Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said on Weibo that a 36-year-old man had been detained for allegedly leaking private information.

“On Dec 11, a 36-year-old man with the surname Fu took advantage of his working position in a hospital in Shunyi District by taking a photo of a patient’s personal medical record and sending it to a WeChat group for the purpose of showing off, causing the information to spread,” the police station wrote.

Before her death, the popular celebrity served as the Chinese Communist Party’s “vaccine ambassador.”

Chow was tasked with encouraging the public to get vaccinated for Covid.

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Bobbie Jean Carter Found Dead after 'Sudden Death' at 41

Bobbie Jean Carter, the sister of Backstreet Boys singers Aaron and Nick Carter, has been found dead at the age of 41.

Carter died on Saturday, December 23, 2023, in Florida, TMZ reports.

The cause of Carter’s unexpected passing has not been revealed.

However, her family described the tragedy as a “sudden death” and revealed they are “in shock.”

Carter’s passing has been confirmed by multiple sources, including multiple members of Carter’s family.

Jane Carter, Bobbie Jean Carter’s mother, provided a statement to TMZ on the passing of her daughter.

“I am in shock from learning of the sudden death of my daughter, Bobbie Jean; and I will need time to process the terrible reality of this happening for the third time,” Jane Carter said, referring to the deaths of her son Aaron, who died at 34 in November 2022, and daughter Leslie, who died in 2012.

“When I am able to think clearly, I’ll release a fuller statement; but until then I would request to be left to grieve in private.

She added, “[H]owever deeply a parent feels the loss of a child, the suffering of a young child at the loss of a parent must be much greater.

“So, I would ask the sympathetic to say a prayer for my precious eight-year-old granddaughter Bella, who previously lost her father and is now also left without her mother.”

Angel Carter, Aaron Carter’s twin, has posted a tribute to Bobbie Jean Carter via her Instagram profile.

Angel Carter wrote, “You had a great sense of humor and a lively spirit. Growing up, I was your baby, and you were my best friend. Life wasn’t fair to you, that I know.

“Sometimes, it feels like you didn’t have a shot, no matter what.”

Angel Carter wrote:

Experiencing innocence instead of being burdened by trauma, pain, and suffering is incredibly important for children, particularly at such a young age.
I know why Leslie, Aaron, and now you ended up in the circumstances that you did.
I share that pain we experienced during our childhood and I’m sorry you didn’t have an opportunity for a better life.

Leslie and Aaron previously passed away.

Aaron Carter died a year ago from a drug-related drowning, while Leslie died in 2012 from an overdose.

The Daily Caller reports:

“Bobby Jean was affectionately known as ‘BJ,’ and at one point, spent much of her time behind the scenes in the music business, alongside her famous brothers.

“She was a wardrobe stylist and makeup artist for Nick and Aaron and was known to tour with them in the early 2000s . . .”

The outlet adds, “She appeared in eight episodes of the family’s E! reality television show, House of Carters, before slowly removing herself from the spotlight to live a more private lifestyle.”

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2023 Is a Year of Record Cold Temperatures - Media Blackout (and shows the Sheer Hypocrisy with regard to the UN's ultimate regard to "Climate Change" and their 'constant' LIES to the People of America and the World: Indeed, where they should NOT be TRUSTED now, as it has been clearly corrupted by the Uber-Super Rich Globalaists and their "Great Reset" Agenda)

During 2023, the corporate media has been dominated by reports of allegedly record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts.

According to the media, this is all the result of the so-called “climate crisis.”

In 2022, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned us it was “code red for humanity.”

This was due to supposed “global warming” caused by CO2 emissions from human activities.

In 2023, Guterres upped the ante when he introduced his latest ultra-hyped rhetoric and declared: “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

The UN chief made the fearmongering statement during the hot weather in the summer for maximum effect.

Around the same time, the media pushed the claims that July was the hottest on record.

This conveniently coincided with reports of “apocalyptic” wildfires in the Mediterranean (Spain, Greece, and Italy), the U.S., Hawaii, and Canada.

Of course, we are supposed to assume that wildfires didn’t exist before the Industrial Revolution and imagine that average temperatures have been recorded for millions of years, and not just the past 150 years.

For causal uniformed corporate media viewers (non-Slay News readers), it would be easy to assume Guterres and the climate catastrophists were merely quoting facts.

However, the temperature data recorded for 2023 tells a very different story than the one promoted by Guterres et all.

When viewing the record cold temperatures for 2023, it suggests the opposite of “global boiling.”

On January 14, 2023, an astonishing –62.4°C was recorded in Tongulakh, Siberia.

In addition to becoming Earth’s coldest temperature recorded in 2023, the all-time station record was broken in Tongulakh.

On February 4, 2023, the Halifax airport in Nova Scotia saw its coldest wind chills ever recorded.

The temperature plummeted to –43°C (–45.4°F).

This tops its previous record of –41°C that was set on February 13 1967 for wind chill.

Many other places across Canada also set new daily records, with temperatures lower than –40°C.

On February 19, temperatures in Shepherd Bay, Nunavut dropped to –49.6°C (–57.3°F).

On Tuesday, March 7, the United Kingdom braved its coldest night of 2023.

Temperatures plunged to below –15 Celsius in several regions.

According to UK news outlet The Independent, the British Met Office revealed that the temperature at Kinbrace in the Scottish Highlands was recorded at –15.2 Celsius, making it the coldest March in the country since 2010.

In February, the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire reported a wind-chill low of –78 Celsius (–108 Fahrenheit).

This was the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States, despite the “climate crisis” allegedly “boiling” the planet.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Caribou, Maine, said it received reports of “frostquakes.”

“Just like earthquakes, [they] generate tremors, thundering sensations,” the NWS explains.

“These are caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil or underground water when it’s very cold.”

In Boston, where officials closed down the public school system due to the impending freeze, the low temperature hit –23°C (–10°F).

This drop shattered the day’s record set more than a century ago, the NWS said.

In Providence, Rhode Island, the mercury dropped to –23°C (–9°F), well below the previous all-time low of –19°C (–2°F), set in 1918.

The Arctic blast flowing into the U.S. from eastern Canada also brought record lows to Albany, New York; Augusta, Maine; Rochester, New York; and Worcester, Massachusetts, among other places.

In June, Sydney experienced its coldest morning on record.

The Australian city recorded a minimum temperature of 1.8°C at Olympic Park, according to Miriam Bradbury, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology.

In fact, more than 100 weather stations across Australia registered their coldest May minimum temperatures on record.

They saw regular frosts, snowfall, and below-average rainfall.

Thursday, June 1 saw potentially the lowest June temperature on record in Finland.

A weather station in Lapland, Enontekiö Kilpisjärvi Saana, reached –7.7°C.

This may not seem that cold for northern Finland, where winter temperatures reach as low as –51.5°C.

However, the last time Lapland saw a minimum temperature of –7°C in June was on June 3, 1962

Extreme cold also arrived abnormally early in Antarctica.

Temperatures dropped to below –75°C from the beginning of May.

Following the onset of polar night, winter has started at the South Pole, and with it glacial cold at the Russian research station of Vostok.

As early as May 5, a low of –75°C was recorded, while just days ago this fell further to –76.4°C.

This marks a new record for the early winter.

Daily highs are also plummeting, often just below –70°C on the Earth’s coldest continent.

A sudden and unexpected surge of cold Arctic air engulfed several regions of South America, shattering numerous cold records in its wake.

Although it is currently summer in the southern hemisphere, including parts of South America such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and parts of Brazil, some areas have experienced a drastic and rapid shift in weather.

Some have been going from a heat wave to frost in less than a week.

On February 18, 2023, most of the cities in Paraguay experienced a sharp drop in temperature, breaking their previous records for minimum temperatures.

The temperatures ranged between 7° and 16°C (44.6- 60.8°F) across the country.

The lowest readings were recorded in the southeast.

The lowest temperature was 7.7°C (45.9 °F), which is just 0.7°C (1.2°F) from the national record low for the month of February.

The extreme cold weather caused at least 30 cities in Argentina to break their monthly cold records on the same day.

So, despite the warnings of planetary overheating from Guterres and the green agenda alarmists, it seems that this year record cold temperatures have been recorded on every continent.

Yet, much of what mainstream media has been pushing has been stories of the supposed “record hot temperatures” and “Earth on fire” apparently caused by man-made “global warming.”

Meanwhile, there is always somewhere on Earth that has experienced its coldest-ever temperature record.

However, the global elite and their media allies don’t like to mention these record-cold temperatures as they don’t fit in with the “global boiling” narrative.

Instead, they are desperate to convince us that our planet is overheating.

In response, we need to accept massive drops in quality of life for the general public, high taxes, energy insecurity, de-industrialization, mass unemployment, and national impoverishment.

The public must surrender their freedoms in order to meet the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” targets while the global power elites can fly around in private jets to “save the planet.”

Meanwhile, countries like China, India, and Indonesia hugely increase their national CO2 emissions as they take our industries and jobs

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And,

2023 “Earth’s Hottest Year on Record” Claims Fail

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/16/2023-earths-hottest-year-on-record-claims-fail/

Democrat Voters in Biden's Home State Are Flipping to Republican in Droves

Democrat voters in President Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania are flipping to the Republican Party in droves, new registration data shows.

Pennsylvania, the president’s birthplace, holds crucial importance for Biden’s 2024 reelection bid.

Earlier this year, Biden notably hailed Philadelphia campaign donors as the “backbone” of his presidential campaign.

However, Democrats in Biden’s home state are abandoning his party in numbers that spell doom for the president’s election hopes.

As of December 18, 35,589 Democrats reregistered as Republicans in the state so far this year.

In contrast, 15,622 Pennsylvania Republicans switched to the Democratic Party, data from the State Department shows.

The state trend was first reported Tuesday by Newsweek.

Biden’s ties to his home state deepen with his wife Jill’s roots in Montgomery County.

The president’s granddaughter Maisy also recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that Biden would make his first visit to Philadelphia on Jan. 6.

Nathan Benefield, senior vice president of the Pennsylvania-based public policy think tank Commonwealth Foundation, warns that Biden is becoming increasingly unpopular in his home state.

While Pennsylvania is a swing state, “by all the polling, Joe Biden is unpopular here,” and much of it is attributed to the president’s “Bidenomics,” Benefield said.

“Voters are saying they’re not happy with Bidenomics and the economy, and I think that’s reflected in the registration and some of the voting patterns,” he explained.

“Whether Trump and Biden are at the top of the ticket or not, I do think it’s going to be pretty much one of the closest states next year.”

Benefield suggested that a shift is occurring among blue-collar Democrats in the state.

Particularly, blue-collar Democrats in the western region have historically favored Republicans in presidential elections.

This change seems to be permeating to lower-level elections, and it’s now becoming evident in their party registration.

State voter registration data also indicates a significant trend for both parties.

It reveals that a substantial number of voters are disassociating themselves from party affiliation.

Specifically, 20,908 Democrats and 18,927 Republicans chose to leave their respective party memberships.

In 2020, Biden claimed the state for the Democrats by just 1.2 percentage points.

Trump had flipped state in 2016.

Pennsylvania will have 19 electoral votes up for grabs in 2024, down one from 2020.

The latest polling data indicates that Biden is either even with Trump or trailing slightly.

In 2020, Pennsylvania fell to Biden by just under 80,000 votes.

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WHO Demands End of Public Meat Consumption - a further "Tyrannical & Draconian" act against the People

Blogger Important Note: This emerging Tyrant's objectives are being made known and the people of the world should be fully conscience of his Amendments to the International Health Treaty (IHR) that our western politicians have already signed up to from May 2024 onwards and into "International Law", where our governments have to do as Tedros and all future D-Gs of the WHO dictate to them and where are after this date, wil be impotent to do anything that the WHO forcibly states that they tell them to do, where our "Freedoms" and "Human Rights" as people have been stripped out of IHR forever (as international laws cannot be changed without the whole world rebelling against such laws)...just another warning of many now emerging from what is 'really' happening in the world due to the "WEF's 2030 Great Reset Agenda" and where the WHO and UN are now controlled by the Globalaists and their World Economic Forum (The WEF) if you did not know, as everything the WEF proclaims, the UN undertakes and they state to the world in High-Level speeches and UN documents...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been accused of declaring “war on meat and traditional agriculture” after the unelected United Nations (UN) agency demanded that governments “transform food systems” to tackle the “global burden” of “climate change.”

In a video statement, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on governments of sovereign nations to end the consumption of meat among the general public.

Tedros argues that “Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet.”

To fight this alleged crisis, the powerful bureaucrat and his globalist organization are promoting the UN’s demands for replacing meat with “climate-resilient food systems.”

In his statement, Tedros insists that forcing the public to shift to “diversified and more plant-based diets” will promote the health of both people and planet.”

However, as many were quick to note on social media, the “diversified” diet Tedros is promoting is likely a reference to the insect-based “foods” pushed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Bill Gates’ lab-grown “meats.”

“Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet,” Tedros declares in the video message.

“Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one-third of the global burden of disease,” he alleged.

“Transforming food systems is therefore essential by shifting for this healthier, diversified and more plant-based diets.”

“If food systems deliver healthy diets for all we could save 8 million lives per year,” he continued.

“WHO is committed to supporting countries to develop and implement policies to improve diets and fight climate change.

“I’m therefore very pleased that over 130 countries have signed the code 28 UAE Declaration on climate and health.

“Together, we can protect and promote the health of both people and planet.”

Tedros did not produce any documentation or evidence to support his claims.

WATCH:

In a report on the statement, the Post Millennial accused the WHO of declaring “war on meat and traditional farming.”

“A new declaration from the World Health Organization has revealed that it wants the masses to eat less meat and more plant-based foods in order to supposedly combat ‘climate change,'” the report asserted.

The comments align with a page posted by the United Nations regarding the agency’s COP28 summit in Dubai.

The recent global warming conference was attended by unelected bureaucrats and corporate elites from around the world, many of whom arrived at the events in carbon-spewing private jets.

That UN page pushes for the uniting of “global leaders behind commitments and plans to achieve the Paris Agreement.”

The UN continues by falsely referring to the Paris Accord as a “legally binding UN treaty to tackle climate change and limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5°C.”

However, the Paris Accord asks for “non-binding commitments.”

Further, the UN site insists on a “transition away from fossil fuels.”

The agency also calls for nations “to implement integrated, multisectoral solutions to deliver sustainable, climate-resilient food systems as a climate change adaptation measure.”

A report from Rolling Out bluntly accused the WHO chief of “wanting to take away your meat.”

The calls from the WHO were met with widespread pushback on social media, however.

“Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares war on meat and traditional agriculture, in the name of ‘fighting climate change,'” Wide Awake Media charged in a post on X.

“Anyone remember electing this clown to dictate what kind of agriculture and diets are permissible?

Dennis McCleney, a self-proclaimed “hard-rocking, hard-riding conservative Christian,” explained:

“The assumption that the Earth’s atmosphere is a closed system and that CO2 is a hazard is absolutely absurd.

“Without CO2, there would be no life on Earth.

“It also comprises just 0.04% of the atmosphere.

“Quit giving credence to these liars and elitists.”

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WHO Demands End of Public Meat Consumption

Vivek Reveals Theory That GOP Is Working To Keep Trump Off Of Ballots, Speculation Explodes

By Chris Powell - Trending Politics: December 29, 2023

Conservative entrepreneur and 2024 GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has stirred the political landscape with a theory that the Republican establishment is covertly working to keep former President Donald Trump off of primary ballots.

Ramaswamy suggested that there is an ongoing, concerted effort within the GOP to sideline Trump. According to him, the move is not just about distancing the party from Trump’s controversial persona, but rather about positioning a ‘chosen candidate’ by the establishment to lead the party in the upcoming elections.

“Now, the fact that they’re not doing it reveals that there’s something deeper going on,” he said. “This isn’t just the Democrats. There’s a force within the Republican establishment that’s propped up a chosen puppet and they’re actually rooting for this same outcome every bit as much as the Democrats are.”

The Republican candidate’s statement comes in the wake of recent developments where Trump’s eligibility for ballot access has been denied in Colorado and now Maine. Ramaswamy pledged to withdraw his own candidacy in any other states where Trump is forcibly removed from the ballot. He then once again challenged Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis to do the same.

Maine’s Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, ruled Trump ineligible to appear on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday. The decision, stemming from challenges based on the Fourteenth and Twenty-Second Amendments, marked another significant moment in political history.

The ruling addressed the disqualification of those who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States. The Secretary of State concluded, “Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid…he is not qualified to hold the office of the President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Ramaswamy continued, “This isn’t the end of the road, this is just the beginning of what they’re planning to pull in 2024. And you mark my words on that. This is a system that has decided by hell or high water, at one cost or another, they will eliminate this man from contention in this election.”

“You see that happening Colorado two days ago, Maine today. You wait for what’s happening in 2024, and I’m worried for this country.”

The ruling also addressed a challenge under the Twenty-Second Amendment, which limits the number of terms a person can be elected as President. However, the Secretary of State found that Trump’s claims regarding the 2020 election do not disqualify him under this amendment.

“The events of January 6, 2021 were unprecedented and tragic,” Bellows continued. “They were an attack not only upon the Capitol and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law. The evidence here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President. The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government.”

Within a matter of minutes of the decision being reported, Steven Cheung, Trump Campaign Spokesman sent out a statement bashing Bellows:

“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter. Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by attempting to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot. Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”

The state of Maine joined Colorado as the only two states to bar the former President from the 2024 Presidential ballot.

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