by | Feb 28, 2024 | Aggregate
Bodycam footage that has been released of the Feb. 11 shooting at Lakewood Church in Houston revealed that one person responding to the scene prayed while waiting to confront the shooter.
“We need to approach. Father God, just be with us Forgive us of our sins,” a female voice is heard saying in a snippet posted by NBC.
KHOU has identified the voice as that of off-duty Houston police officer Garcia.
During the incident, Genesse Moreno, 36, entered the church, which is led by Pastor Joel Osteen, with a rifle. Security officers responded with gunfire of their own and killed Moreno.
Moreno’s 7-year-old son was critically wounded in the gunfire, and another church member was injured.
Officials have not said who shot the child in the head or released a motive for the attack.
Katherine Schweit, who created the FBI’s active shooter program, said responding officers did their job..
“It was gripping to listen to the officer asking God to guide them, knowing she needed to move closer as fast as she can. The frightening part, the reality you see in that footage, she doesn’t know what she’s going to face,” she said, according to KHOU.
Video of the incident that was released showed Moreno with a rifle walking through the lobby and parishioners running after a shot was fired.
At one point in the video, a male responding said that he is “pinned down” by Moreno.
The video shows Moreno, as she stood over her wounded child, calling out “Stand down, I have a bomb.”
NBC reported that after the child was shot, Garcia knelt by the boy and prayed, “Father God, please bring him close to you.”
The full video released by Houston police is on YouTube and is shown below. Viewers should be aware the video contains graphic violence.
Mark Stevens, a retired Houston police detective, said the off-duty officers had to react to the unexpected, according to KTRK-TV.
“I mean she just appears. There is no time other than to take immediate action,” he said.
He said officers were outgunned because they had handguns and Moreno had a rifle.
“Shooting a rifle is a distance thing. I mean, they can pick you off from a long way away. Those officers had to get close enough, so their shots were accurate,” Stevens said.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by | Feb 28, 2024 | Aggregate
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has called for lawmakers to change the Sanctuary City law.
Mayor Adams said he wants the law to be modified to allow for migrants who commit violent crimes to be deported.
Speaking at an event on Tuesday, Adams said “The overwhelming amount of migrants that are here, they want to work. I still don’t understand why the federal government’s not allowing them to work.”
Wow.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is calling for NYC’s sanctuary city law to be changed so that criminal illegal aliens can be deported.
Democrats don’t even want to live under their policies. pic.twitter.com/izwPI95NrY
— Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) February 27, 2024
Adams continued, “They need to have the right to work like all of us that have come to this country had the ability to do so.”
“But those small numbers that are committing crimes, we need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony, a violent act, we should be able to turn you over to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and have you deported. It is a right to live in this city, and you should not be committing crimes in our city. Right now, we don’t have the authority to do so.”
The liberal mayor also discussed the issue during a press conference later in the day.
“I don’t believe people who are violent in our city and commit repeated crimes should have the privilege of being in our city,” Adams said. “You don’t have the right to be in our city and tarnish the overwhelming number who are here following the rules.”
The Hill reports, “The call for a policy shift comes after a spate of high-profile violent crimes committed by migrants, including the shooting of a tourist in a Times Square store robbery earlier this month.”
New York was the first city to implement “Sanctuary City” laws, promising to protect illegal migrants. The city is now overrun and begging for help from the federal government.
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by | Feb 28, 2024 | Aggregate
By U.S. Customs and Border Protection – CBP Processing Unaccompanied Children, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51178808
Mainstream media and the administration are pushing a narrative that funding for the Ukraine War and illegal immigration is helping the economy, both of which are complete nonsense. In fact, a Washington Post story on this topic begins by saying that “the economy is roaring,” and then goes on to explain how this amazing economy is driven by immigrants who are responsible for job creation.
Although they have twisted the interpretation of the economic data to make it appear that the economy is doing well, the average American is worse off than they were five years ago. Biden claims job creation, but the number of full-time jobs has been in steady decline. The number of part-time jobs is growing, and this is because of an influx of millions of people for whom minimum wage and no benefits are better than what they left behind. Twitter is full of ironic posts by conservatives saying, “Biden created X number of jobs, and I have three of them.” The number of Americans working two or more jobs has increased by 28% under Biden.
Wages have increased only modestly, while prices are up a cumulative 21 percent. Biden claims inflation is falling, but what he actually means is that prices are rising more slowly than they were a year ago. That is not much of a help if you already cannot afford to make ends meet. Gas is still about 42% higher than before the pandemic, and food is up 25%. The reasons why your dollar is buying less are because of government spending, credit expansion, deficits, debt, and money printing.
The funding for the Ukraine war is a perfect example. While there may be very legitimate national security reasons to defend Ukraine and oppose the expansion of Russia, it is not true that Ukraine funding is growing the US economy. The Wall Street Journal claims that the aid given to Ukraine benefits the US economy because much of it is actually paid to US defense contractors. And while this is true, that money represents government debt. The government is literally borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Government debt-funded spending helps a few US firms, but debt causes inflation and currency devaluation, which hurt Americans now. It also hurts Americans in the future in the form of taxes needed to repay the debt.
Illusory economic growth stemming from debt-fueled government spending is temporary and unsustainable. The boom must end in a bust, which will be even worse than our current economy. Government debt must be repaid with interest, and interest rates are currently dramatically higher than in 2019. Currently, the Fed discount window interest rate is 5.5%, and the monthly interest rate on US government debt is 3.15 percent.
Another issue with increasing America’s debt to defend another country is the opportunity cost. Buying weapons for Ukraine is not an investment in productive assets. If you take a loan to buy a machine that allows you to earn income in the future, you calculate the income against the debt, and if you have a positive gain, you borrow the money. For example, you take a loan to buy a limousine and then charge people $300 an hour to ride in it. But the money spent on Ukraine will never produce an economic return.
If the same amount of money had been put into education, research and development, or border security, America would see a return on its investment.
Turning our attention to border security takes us back to immigration. The Washington Post recently claimed that “About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.” All they are really saying is that 50% of the new jobs were taken by immigrants. This is not a benefit to the average American. The Congressional Budget Office claims that the economy will grow by $7 trillion over the next decade, and $1 trillion of this is attributable to immigration.
The $7 trillion figure is just a mathematical function of the average US annual growth times 10 years. And it is based on the highest Biden growth year, a one-time boost to the economy when Biden allowed people to get back to work after Covid. That $7 trillion will most likely take more like 15 years to materialize, assuming the US economy ever gets back to normal.
The additional $1 trillion attributed to immigrants is simply based on the projected increase in the size of the population. So, basically, what the data proves is that immigration makes the population larger, something we all probably knew. And these figures ignore the money spent on welfare, aid to immigrants and illegal immigrants, healthcare paid for by the state, the cost of educating immigrant children, the cost of courts and law enforcement, increased crime and drug use caused by open borders… all of which is funded by government debt which, as we have already covered, hurts the economy in the long term and diverts resources from other more productive activities or citizen services.
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by | Feb 28, 2024 | Aggregate
CNN cuts off Lee Zeldin after he points out Trump had more votes than all Democrats combined.
Former Congressman Lee Zeldin went on CNN on Tuesday night after President Trump’s latest victory in the Michigan primary.
Deep state plant Nikki Haley could only must 28% of the primary vote even with her Democrat voter base.
Lee Zeldin noted that President Trump received more votes in Michigan than all Democrat primary votes COMBINED. Zeldin added, “It’s possible that the ENTIRE blue wall gets painted red this November.”
CNN did NOT want to hear that and promptly cut him off.
It was too much truth for the leftist panel.
Lee Zeldin: You know, there’s a big enthusiasm gap. If you, if you look right now, there’s, you know, 26, 27% of the vote in between the Democratic turnout, the Republican turnout, the republican turnout is right now far trouncing the Democratic turnout. And there’s a percentage of the total vote that we’re waiting to see come in. It’ll be interesting to see what comes in from Wayne county. Yes, I get that. But President Trump’s number at the moment is actually more than all of the Democratic Party primary voters together. So I would say that President Trump, when looking at the amount of people who are coming out to vote for him tonight, would be very encouraged by the amount of votes that he is getting compared to all the Democrats who have shown up.
That was enough for the other seven liberals on the panel. They promptly ignored Lee and moved on.
Via Lee Zeldin on X.
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by | Feb 28, 2024 | Aggregate
Republicans will need a well defined strategy to defeat the fraud we witnessed in the 2020 election, including: ballot stuffing, late night ballot drops, and blocking GOP observers from the counting rooms.
In each of the 15 counties determining the 2024 presidential winner there exists a well-oiled, practiced, dedicated, funded ballot harvesting operation run by leftists.
Leftists know every voter profile – whether they are likely to vote or not. Of course, they do – they have been voting for those profiles for 20 years!
Leftist organizations have the infrastructure in place – with NGOs and party organizations, to cast a ballot for any voter if they don’t vote. In Milwaukee, leftist organizations monitor voter rolls – check who voted – make up the needed votes – no matter how many are required.
In 2024 leftists will run their 10th or 20th ballot harvest operation in each of the 15 key counties.
Leftists control the voter rolls in all 15 key counties. They control most of the election apparatus. They can – and did – add 22,000 new voters days before the 2022 election in Arizona to beat Kari Lake – who was burdened by using the RNC data team – thus never saw it coming – and won’t next time.
The Republicans will run their first ballot harvest – starting sometime in April 2024, with lists that are 50% incorrect. What could go wrong?
One might conclude the situation is hopeless. Not so fast.
Fractal AI data could save Republicans from the well organized Democrat fraud in 2024.
Hopelessness – for some – becomes a force – it was in Wisconsin in 2022 – where a band of hardy, gritty streetfighters said “enough” and showed how to win against this leftist machine – in a state where both the Republican leadership and the leftist government – fought them.
The Wisconsin streetfighters innovated – something Republicans never do. Innovation beats infrastructure every time – and they proved it – as the American Thinker article notes in detail.
They royally screwed up the leftist plan to take out a U.S. Senator – learn from them!
The team identified every address where a mail-in ballot was going to go and not find an eligible recipient – because it was an ineligible address.
They did not challenge voters – they challenged addresses.
Addresses have neither rights nor lawyers, nor 40 years of nonsensical laws saying a dead person cannot be removed from the voter roll unless he does not vote in 8 years!
The streetfighters publicly outed addresses – making a laughingstock of the voter rolls: who wants to defend the guy registered from the UPS Box or Walmart?
They scoured voter lists, cross-checked them with NCOA change of address lists and property tax lists, and determined that Willie, who votes every year, lives at a convenience store without any bedrooms.
They implemented quantum technology – for the first time ever.
The Wisconsin boys applied time series analysis across every voter to see how long someone had been voting from their current address.
Out popped college students at frat houses – voting for 20 years. People may vote from a rehab facility – maybe – but not for 17 years! Time series – not available with relational SQL technology – found these by the thousands.
Ineligible locations, when challenged, become indefensible!
The Wisconsin streetfighters did not produce complicated “algorithms.” They did not produce “statistics” nobody understands. No reports.
They showed, in real time, from a tablet – every ineligible address that was going to receive a ballot – into the hundreds of thousands.
Armed with the list of where over 450,000 Wisconsin ballots were going to be mailed – in the 2022 election, to ineligible addresses – the streetfighter team started meeting with county registrars.
Let’s go there.
The team meets with the registrar in a Republican county. They show her 200 registrations on an interactive tablet. Together, they drill down to the actual address – which is a warehouse with no bedrooms. It’s there, in Google maps. You can see examples yourself on our micro-site for Kansas, Texas, Minnesota, Georgia – soon Mississippi and Alabama.
The registrar says “…I never knew this was an ineligible address” – and starts the process of removing them. No mail-in ballot!
In some of the leftist-run counties, registrars refused to take the guy off the voter roll voting from the strip mall for decades. The voters in the homeless shelters – who were there for over 10 years – remained.
However, a lot of them did not get mail-in ballots. The registrars were informed, in writing, these addresses were “legally ineligible” thus if they received a mail-in ballot the registrar was subject to criminal penalties.
Nobody challenged a person’s right to vote.
Not one person was named as “Phineas is a phantom.”
Quite the opposite – the argument became – “Hey, this address is a strip mall, with no bedrooms and yet has 25 people registered there. If mail-in ballots go there, we are coming after you.”
A U.S. Senate seat was won, more like saved, by a tiny margin, but saved nonetheless.
Did this effort stop every ballot going to a warehouse? No. But it stopped enough. And enough is what we should be looking for.
Ballot harvesting is a thing for two reasons. First, if you don’t know what to do, anything sounds good. Second, it is a huge money maker for Republican operatives.
Ballot harvesting means hiring armies of “canvassers” who drop in, go door to door with those inaccurate RNC lists, and who gets a cut of that funding? You guessed it! The consultant class and the emerging MAGA grifter boys.
Trump is now an industry and Republicans are setting up shop!
The 2024 election can be won with technology, not last-minute ballot harvesting against those who perfected it.
Every major corporation in America is moving to quantum compute, advanced large language model and small language model A.I. Not the Republicans – because they do not understand it, they are invested in ancient relational SQL data lake technology, and they can’t make a buck on it.
As we show on our micro-site for election related stuff, quantum compute technology can deliver in any county in America, in 30 days, insight showing where ballots will be mailed in 2024 – to ineligible addresses – costing Republicans the election.
No lists. No stats. No algorithms. Just live, real time data – to your phone, tablet – making videos of them and posting them all day long – at 200 million transactions per second.
The Undeliverable Ballot Database.
The left is invested in crappy voter rolls – Republicans are hamstrung by them.
What the streetfighters in Wisconsin taught is how to hang the leftists on those voter rolls.
Now that quantum can identify ineligible addresses by the thousands – months before the election – it’s too late for leftists to move illegal aliens in Wisconsin and Michigan, or college students in New Hampshire, to eligible locations.
Even if they do, quantum compute finds them in the time series – in one click.
Quantum compute freezes ineligible addresses, outs them for all to see, and challenges mail-in ballots going out – by showing pictures of the strip mall! Stop mail-in ballot fraud before it happens!
In 2024, if Trump does not stop mail-in ballots from going to hundreds of thousands of ineligible locations, he certainly will not stop them from being cast and counted – against him.
Jay Valentine led the team that built the eBay fraud engine, the underlying technology for the TSA No-Fly List. Jay can be contacted at Omega4America.com
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