Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside Israel’s DC Embassy

by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate

A man is in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside Israel’s embassy in Washington, DC.

The man’s identity has not been made public at this time.

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— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) February 25, 2024

The Hill reports, “D.C. Fire and EMS said that units responded just before 1 p.m. and discovered a man with burn injuries in front of the embassy. He was transported to an area hospital with critical and life-threatening injuries.

According to reporter Alan Henney, the man was alive — but unconscious.

A man is in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.

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— OnePatrioticJEW (@OnePatrioticJew) February 25, 2024

Self-immolation is commonly used as an act of extreme protest and has happened multiple times in DC.

On Earth Day in 2022, April 22, climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce set himself on fire outside the Supreme Court Building. He died from his injuries.

In 2017, an anti-Trump protester lit himself on fire outside what was then Trump Hotel. He was transported to the hospital and treated for non-life threatening burns.

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House Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoena for Health and Human Services Secretary, Accuses Agency of Concealing Gang Affiliations of Illegal Minors Charged With Serious Crimes

by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate

 Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra

Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena for Health and Human Services  (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday requesting case files on unaccompanied child migrants charged with crimes in the U.S. after being released by HHS.

The letter accuses Becerra of concealing the gang affiliations of illegal aliens who are minors and are then caught committing serious crimes like theft, brutal assault, and murder.

According to a press release, since June 2023, the Committee has requested several HHS case files for criminal aliens “but has been stonewalled by HHS, which has baselessly withheld the case files for months.”

“As an extraordinary accommodation to HHS, the Committee agreed to review the case file materials in camera; however, once Committee staff began to review the documents, it became clear that HHS had applied pervasive redactions to the documents—without notice to the Committee. Across multiple case files, HHS redacted information about whether specific UACs had ‘identifying scars, marks, or tattoos’—information that can be indicative of gang affiliation. Worse, HHS went so far as to redact information explicitly requested by the Committee, including information shared with HHS by other agencies and immigration case history information.”

“By unilaterally redacting the case files, HHS rendered the requested materials provided for in camera review all but useless, frustrating and impeding the Committee’s investigation into HHS’ release of criminal aliens into the U.S.”

In the letter to Secretary Becerra, Rep. Jordan concludes,

Read the full letter below.

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San Francisco Store Resorts to Extreme Measures In Attempt to Stop ‘Rampant Shoplifting’

by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate

As the once beautiful city of San Francisco continues to devolve into chaos, one store has raised eyebrows for the extremes it is going to in order to stem the tide of retail theft it is suffering.

Retail theft has become an absolute plague in stores in most big, Democrat-run cities, and San Francisco has not been not spared the scourge that is closing stores all across the nation.

The problem has forced many businesses to simply give up and close down. Others have tried putting much of their wares under lock and key to prevent people from just grabbing armfuls of items and walking out.

But one business is taking a whole new approach, according to KRON-TV.

Fredericksen’s Hardware and Paint in the Cow Hollow neighborhood has lighted on a novel idea.

“It’s pretty bad,” store manager Sam Black told the station. “I mean, the dollar amounts are pretty significant, and with the tools and now we’re getting snatch-and-grabs when they take whole displays, so it’s getting kind of dangerous for the employees and the customers.”

The hardware store has not only launched a new way to stop the “rampant shoplifting” owners are suffering, but is also offering a new shopping experience.

During designated hours, the store is offering a one-on-one shopping experience. For two hours each morning and two more each evening, customers will be escorted through the store guided by an employee.

“We just want to make it uncomfortable for the thieves so they go somewhere else,” Black said.

As customers are being escorted, others will be left standing near a table being used to block the exits so that thieves can’t freely roam the store.

Black said that in all the years he has been in business, the retail theft he is now experiencing is the worst he has ever seen, he told the station.

The store has also taken to locking up many products to prevent theft.

“Yeah, people aren’t happy,” Black said of customer reaction to the product lockdowns. “The regulars can’t believe it like we can’t believe it, but they’ve been really understanding.”

Black also has criticism for the city over this whole situation, and added that they aren’t getting any help at all from the police or city officials.

The new one-on-one shopping plan has been going on for three weeks. Black says he will evaluate its success at the end of the month.

Black added that he is not sure how long he will maintain this program, but he has to do something.

San Francisco supervisor Catherine Stefani blasted the situation.

“This situation is tragic and embarrassing for our city, and it’s all the more reason to get serious about solving our police staffing crisis,” Stefani said in a statement.

“We need more police on our streets, and we need them now. That’s why I’ll hold a series of hearings in March to push our city agencies to fill the hundreds of vacancies at the Police Department as soon as possible — to stop the bleeding, reverse the damage, and finally protect our residents and small businesses,” she said.

Stefani, though she is right to want to empower the police after years of the defund the police attacks on law enforcement, is missing the bigger problem. The root of the problem is the George Soros-bought prosecutors who won’t put criminals in jail.

Crooks know that they are being given carte blanche to rob stores blind and that nothing at all will be done to them. So, why not just rob with impunity? Until this dereliction of duty perpetrated by the prosecutors is reversed, these constant waves of theft will not recede.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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WATCH: Newsom Laughs After Reporter Asks If Biden Has Better Chance of Beating Trump Than Him

by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate

California Governor Gavin Newsom laughed after a Fox News reporter asked if Joe Biden has a better chance of beating former President Donald Trump than he does.

Newsom has long been rumored to be running a shadow campaign, intending to step in and replace Biden at the last moment.

“The special counsel report that came out last week against it for President Biden. It had, quote, he is a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. What do you think of this?” the reporter began.

The reporter continued, “And then also for the 2024 election… Does 81-year-old President Biden have a better chance of beating Donald Trump than you? And do you disagree with 86% of Americans who think he’s too old to run?”

The question prompted a round of giggles from Newsom and members of his administration.

“Well, I appreciate, the question in the framing, but, I also appreciate my president and, and his performance,” Newsom began.

“I’m a little old fashioned. I care about results,” the governor said. “I care about governing. I care about people that deliver. And I care about people’s record and, and what President Biden has accomplished in just three years is the most significant list of accomplishments in my lifetime.”

Newsom continued, “And I don’t say that lightly. I say that knowingly, because we’re quite literally here as a beneficiary of those accomplishments. The Homekey motto was inspired by the partnerships that we formed with this administration. The remarkable investments in the infrastructure bill, the remarkable Investments, CHIPS and Science Act, the remarkable and unprecedented investments across a spectrum including Safer Communities Act and new investments in mental health and gun safety.”

The heaps of praise did not stop there.

“The work he’s done to eliminate that, for so many, that are burdened with student loans, I can go on and on. The work he’s done in terms of his alliance management. NATO is stronger and it’s larger than it’s been. Russia’s weaker than they’ve ever been,” Newsom said. “The work he did as it relates to strengthening our alliances, including perhaps, some of the most and most consequential as it relates to, the partnerships now and the new strategic alliances with Japan and South Korea in relationship to what’s going on around the globe.”

Finally, the governor concluded, “So I’m very proud of this president, and I’m very enthusiastic to be out there on the campaign trail for him. When asked, the answer’s yes. And I say that enthusiastically, regardless of time of life. And, I am very, very proud to be a Democrat and proud to support his reelection.”

WATCH:

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