by AM | Dec 6, 2023 | Aggregate
Site of crash where suspect in Austin shooting was taken into custody credit: Austin American Statesman.
A terrifying shooting rampage unfolded for several hours on Tuesday across two of Texas’ largest cities before police finally put an end to the madness.
NBC News reported that four people were killed, and two police officers were shot in Austin during the shooting spree. The suspect has also been connected to two deaths in San Antonio.
Interim Austin Police Chief Robin Henderson revealed during an early Wednesday news conference that the man was arrested after he crashed his vehicle speeding away from a shootout with a police officer. Both were left with “multiple gunshot wounds,” according to Chief Henderson. She said the man was booked into the Travis County Jail and was charged with capital murder, and additional charges against the suspect are “pending.”
Chief Henderson said her department “and other law enforcement had not determined these incidents were connected to the last incident that occurred tonight when the male suspect was taken into custody.”
While Austin Police have not named the suspect, KXAN reports the person responsible is 34-year-old Shane James. The outlet notes that Travis County Jail records show a man with the same name was booked into the jail at 1:30 Wednesday morning and charged with Capital Murder of multiple people. The Daily Mail also confirmed the suspect is James.
Chief Henderson said police were first made aware of the shooting spree after receiving a call at 10:43 AM Central that a sergeant with the Austin Independent School District police force had been shot in the leg three minutes before. He is expected to be released from the hospital.
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The gunman then allegedly murdered two people on Shadywood Drive at 11:59 AM. APD Sgt. Destiny Silva told the local media officers found a man and a woman with “obvious signs of trauma” to their body.
Police said one victim was dead on the scene. The other victim was taken to a local hospital, where they later succumbed to their injuries.
A cyclist was then shot on W. Slaughter Lane at 4:57 PM. but fortunately did not suffer any life-threatening injuries, according to Chief Henderson.
Chief Henderson then revealed that at 6:54 PM. an officer responded to a burglary call on Austral Loop and discovered the suspect in the backyard. The suspect shot the officer multiple times and escaped. A law enforcement source told KXAN that the officer shot suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
KXAN revealed the suspect was chased by the police until he crashed at the intersection of State Highway 45 and FM 1826 at 7:14 PM. He was then taken into custody.
Officers then went into the home on Austral Loop and discovered two dead bodies.
As Kut News reported, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Austin Police contacted his office at 7:45 p.m. to say the suspect had links to a house on Port Royal Drive.
Salazar said when the deputies arrived, they found water pouring out of the house and decided to barge their way inside. They found a man and woman inside, believed in their fifties, who were deceased.
Investigators believe the suspect killed the two individuals before heading to Austin to continue his reign of terror.
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by AM | Dec 6, 2023 | Aggregate
Is there nowhere safe for children?
It wasn’t that long ago when parents could send their kids to school confident adults would protect them. Not anymore. Transgender ideologues have now infiltrated every aspect of society — especially our schools.
In Colorado, some school administrators and teachers are being accused of intentionally subjecting vulnerable students to transgender ideology without the parents knowing about it, The Daily Signal reported Monday.
During a cross-country trip in June, Jefferson County Public Schools “assigned a fifth-grade girl to sleep in the same bed with a fifth-grade boy who identifies as transgender without notifying the girl or her parents,” according to a demand letter sent to the system and Superintendent Tracy Dorland by Alliance Defending Freedom.
ADF is representing the 11-year-old girl’s parents, Joe and Serena Wailes, who want the school to answer for its policies, according to The Daily Signal.
The Waileses say their daughter went on a school-sponsored field trip to Philadelphia and Washington with the assurances from the JCPS that boys and girls would be roomed on different floors.
According to the ADF letter, chaperones were to make it known that boys would not be allowed to visit the girls’ floor and vice versa. Serena Wailes was on the trip with her daughter, but she was not a chaperone.
The Wailes’ daughter, identified as “D.W.,” was assigned to a room with three other students, the letter said. Two of the students were girls from her school. The third was a boy who identified as a girl and attended a different school. The boy was identified as “K.E.M.” in the letter.
“We were definitely not aware of that before we went on the trip,” Serena Wailes told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. She said the boy was wearing girls’ clothing and had longer hair.
D.W. and K.E.M. were assigned to the same bed, according to the letter. When the students were in their room together that evening, K.E.M. told the girls he was a boy who identified as a girl.
D.W. wasn’t having it. She was afraid to share a bed with a boy, so she sneaked into the bathroom and called her mother. She then went downstairs and met Wailes in the lobby.
Wailes said her daughter was “terrified and really upset about the idea of sharing a bed with a biological boy — even though she had a good relationship with this other student.”
Imagine how the child must have felt. She knew what she was being asked to do was wrong even though school authorities had told her to do it. Thankfully, her parents weren’t woke. Imagine if they had been.
“I was really upset,” Serena Wailes told The Daily Signal. “One, I was really upset that she was put in that situation at 11 years old — I don’t feel that is fair to put kids in that kind of situation — and two, that we were not even given the information that this was a possibility before the trip. The whole time they’re saying, ‘Girls on one floor, boys on another, they’re not going to be in each other’s rooms unless it is preapproved.’ So we’re going through this whole process, not even recognizing that this is a possibility.”
Wailes called her husband from the hotel.
“I felt a bit helpless,” he said. “I was 2,000 miles away. My daughter is scared in a bathroom trying to get herself out of a situation. It was a frustrating experience, and I just really felt like it was not a situation my daughter should be put in.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is demanding the Jefferson County School Board and Dorland make clear “whether JCPS will continue this practice of intentionally withholding information about rooming accommodations from parents like the Waileses, who object to their children rooming with a student of the opposite sex, regardless of the other student’s gender identity,” the letter said.
“This practice renders it impossible for these parents to make informed decisions about their children’s privacy, upbringing, and participation in school-sponsored programs,” the group said. “Additionally, our clients request information related to JB R-1 and the ability to opt out of this rooming policy for all future school trips.”
When confronted about the situation, chaperones informed the school’s principal, Ryan Lucas, one of the trip leaders. Lucas then called the boy’s parents, according to the letter.
“K.E.M.’s parents confirmed their child’s transgender gender identity and that K.E.M. was to be in ‘stealth mode,’ meaning students on the trip would not know about their child’s transgender status,” the letter said.
“Stealth mode”? If that doesn’t sound like an intentional infiltration of transgender ideology into the minds of unsuspecting schoolchildren, I don’t know what does.
“Throughout the entire evening, K.E.M.’s privacy and feelings were always the primary concern of JCPS employees,” the letter said. “After JCPS disregarded D.W.’s privacy and the Waileses’ parental rights, JCPS then silenced D.W., thus infringing on her freedom of speech, when a JCPS teacher told the three girls that they were not allowed to tell anyone that K.E.M. was transgender, even though K.E.M. voluntarily chose to share this information.”
Finally, after some back and forth, the chaperones agreed to move the male student to another room — with another female student!
Get it? The Wailes girl is now the culprit because she made a fuss. Shift the blame. Normalize the unnormal.
The school district’s policy states that “in most cases,” rooms are assigned based on a student’s gender identity rather than biological sex, according to the demand letter.
Apparently, it doesn’t matter what the parents think. From the school’s perspective, wokeism is the law of the land. Parents and students must comply, no questions asked.
The Wailes said they have two fourth-grade children scheduled for school trips to New York, Washington and Philadelphia in 2024.
“They want to make sure that every parent knows that this is a possibility and can have the opportunity to opt out or make the best decision for their kid. But they also have two younger children that they want to make sure are not in the same situation that their older daughter was in,” Kate Anderson, director of the Center for Parental Rights at ADF, told The Daily Signal.
That’s not good enough. How about the parents of transgender students opting into schools where girls are girls and boys are boys or starting their own schools?
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by AM | Dec 6, 2023 | Aggregate
South America braces itself for war – and so should the US.
Some people reacted to Venezuela’s referendum on annexing the Esequibo region of Guyana by saying that it was probably a ruse, a distraction to Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s very low popularity in the run-up to next year’s presidential election.
We all wish they’d be right, but the immediate developments suggest that it isn’t so.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has directed the country’s state-owned Petroleum companies to ‘immediately begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas, and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region.’
The disputed territory is ‘larger than Greece’ and incredibly rich in oil and minerals.
The announcement came a mere day after Maduro enacted his weekend referendum on whether to claim sovereignty over the region.
Read: POWDER KEG AMERICA: Venezuela Votes in a Referendum Asking Whether They Should Invade Neighbor Guyana and Occupy 74% Of Its Territory!
Associated Press reported:
“Maduro said he would ‘immediately’ proceed ‘to grant operating licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil, gas and mines in the entire area of our Essequibo’. He also ordered the creation of local subsidiaries of Venezuelan public companies, including oil giant PDVSA and mining conglomerate Corporación Venezolana de Guayana.
It is not clear how the Maduro administration intends to implement the idea of exercising jurisdiction over the territory once it’s officially declared part of Venezuela through a law that is to be soon discussed by the National Assembly, which is controlled by the ruling party.”
Besides the exploitation of resources in Essequibo, Maduro also announced the creation of a new Comprehensive Defense Operational Zone for the disputed area.
Read: Powder Keg America: World Court Forbids Venezuela To Invade Oil-Rich Guyana, as Socialist Dictator Nicolás Maduro Uses Referendum To Distract From His Unpopular Rule
“The 61,600-square-mile (159,500-square-kilometer) area accounts for two-thirds of Guyana. Yet, Venezuela has always considered Essequibo as its own because the region was within its boundaries during the Spanish colonial period, and it has long disputed the border decided by international arbitrators in 1899, when Guyana was still a British colony.
Venezuela’s commitment to pursue the territorial claim has fluctuated over the years. Its interest piqued again in 2015 when ExxonMobil announced it had found oil in commercial quantities off the Essequibo coast.”
Guyana has repeatedly denounced Venezuela’s actions, and neighboring Brazil is getting ready to face a military crisis right outside its border.
Reuters reported:
“Brazil’s military is reinforcing its northern border due to rising tensions between its neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over Venezuela’s claim to the Esequibo region, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
The Brazilian army is moving armored vehicles and more troops to Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state that borders both Venezuela and Guyana after Venezuelans voted in a referendum on Sunday to approve the annexation of the Esequibo.”
Read: In Another Likely Rigged Election Venezuelan Marxist Leaders Cheer Referendum to Invade and Annex Neighboring Oil Rich Guyana
The Guaicuru armored vehicles will join a beefed-up 18th Mechanized Cavalry Regiment, with 600 soldiers to improve security along the border and intensify surveillance.
“Brazil’s top diplomat for Latin America and the Caribbean, Gisela Padovan, said the main road connection between Venezuela and Guyana is through Brazilian territory due the inaccessible terrain of the Esequibo, but its use in any military action would not be accepted by her country.
‘We are following the situation with concern. I do not believe it will come to an armed conflict’, she said in an interview on Monday in which she urged a peaceful resolution.”
Read more:
Guyana on High Alert Against Maduro’s Invasion Threat – Referendum’s Turnout Is Said To Have Been Very Low – Venezuelan Voters Also Allegedly Rejected Arbitration by International Court
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by AM | Dec 6, 2023 | Aggregate
Pinal County Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb released a video on Tuesday.
Sheriff Lamb alleges that illegal border crossers in Arizona are immediately given a $5,000 gift card once they step foot inside the United States – and free plane ticket!
They really do win the Lotto when they enter America!
The the House Committee on Homeland Security released a report last week on the massive cost illegal aliens has on the country. According to the committee, the so-called asylum seekers who enter the US illegally are costing the government $451 billion a year.
Breaking News: Mark Lamb (R) Pinal County AZ Sherriff says that every illegal crossing the border receives a $5,000 gift card.
— Wendy Patterson (@wendyp4545) December 6, 2023
Sheriff Mark Lamb: We have our government giving people that came into this country illegally $5000 gift card.
Hey, folks. Sheriff Lamb here. So I got a truth bomb for you. You know, we see all these people coming across, mostly military-age men coming from China, from Africa, from all over the world, most of them not even being vetted when they come in here. But here’s what’s really going bother you. When these folks come across and they’re processed, they are being given a cell phone, a plane ticket to wherever they want to go in this country, so probably to a community near you and a $5,000 Visa card. So while this Christmas season, you’re struggling to keep your lights on, while you’re struggling to pay your rent, put Christmas presents under the tree for your kids. We have our government giving people that came into this country illegally $5,000 gift cards. That’s the truth, folks. God Bless.
Joe Biden and his handler Obama opened the flood gates. Now they are encouraging the the invasion.
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by AM | Dec 6, 2023 | Aggregate
Muckraker.com released another explosive investigative piece on the illegal invasion of America.
This week Muckraker was in Colombia where he found a hotel packed with Chinese nationals and military-aged men. The hotel in Pasto, Colombia, was packed with Chinese nationals heading to America and eager to cross Joe Biden’s open border.
Thanks to Joe Biden there is an entire industry that sprouted up for foreign nationals headed to the United States where they will be showered with benefits and protected by the far-left America-last regime. Last year the US spent approximately $451 billion to take care of Joe Biden’s illegal invaders.
According to Muckraker:
In Pasto, Colombia, Muckraker found a hotel packed to the brim with military-aged Chinese nationals who were headed to the United States.
During our stay at the Cabańas Rio Mayo Hotel, we were the only non-Chinese visitors. All of the signs posted around the hotel come with a Chinese translation, indicating that this is a common meeting place for people of Chinese origin.
There are so many Chinese nationals headed to the US, that they have established dedicated hubs along their migration route such as this hotel.
From this point, the Chinese will either cross the Darién Gap and trek up to the United States or will fly directly into Mexico if they have a visa.
Secret Chinese Hotel Exposed – MILITARY AGED US-BOUND CHINESE STAGING AT COLOMBIAN HOTEL, CHINESE POLICE IN AMERICA
In Pasto, Colombia, Muckraker found a hotel packed to the brim with military-aged Chinese nationals who were headed to the United States.
During our stay at the… pic.twitter.com/1cWS1otfkZ
— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) December 5, 2023
** Please donate to Muckraker so they can continue their amazing reporting.
Muckraker’s Thomas Hicks also exposed the Chinese Blueprint for the invasion of America.
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