Armed Robbery Suspect Found Shot Several Times in McDonough

MCDONOUGH — The Henry County [Georgia] Police Department announced Wednesday that an armed robbery suspect was found in a McDonough apartment complex after being shot several times.

Henry County Police said that on Jan. 30, detectives and officers responded to the 1600 block of Saddle Creek Drive, McDonough at Hampton Point Apartments.

When they arrived, officers found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

After several search warrants were executed and after using Henry County Police Flock cameras, all parties were identified that had been involved in the incident.

Police said officers found out that the man who had been wounded, Artavious Reed, 20, was the suspect in the case.

The HCPD said Reed allegedly robbed the victims at gunpoint and fired multiple rounds at their car. Police said one of the victims fired back in self defense, striking Reed several times.

Police said Reed was charged with armed robbery, three counts of aggravated assault, two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of certain crimes.

The HCPD said evidence gathered from the incident also tied Reed to two earlier armed robberies.

In the Jan. 30 incident, Reed was the only person who suffered injuries.

Retail sales tumbled 0.8% in January, much more than expected

Consumer spending fell sharply in January, presenting a potential early danger sign for the economy, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Advance retail sales declined 0.8% for the month following a downwardly revised 0.4% gain in December, according to the Census Bureau. A decrease had been expected: Economists surveyed by Dow Jones were looking for a drop of 0.3%, in part to make up for seasonal distortions that probably boosted December’s number.

However, the pullback was considerably more than anticipated. Even excluding autos, sales dropped 0.6%, well below the estimate for a 0.2% gain.

The sales report is adjusted for seasonal factors but not for inflation, so the release showed spending lagging the pace of price increases. On a year-over-year basis, sales were up just 0.6%.

Headline inflation rose 0.3% in January and 0.4% when excluding food and energy prices, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. On a year-over-year basis, the two readings were 3.1% and 3.9%, respectively.

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UNRWA is the The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. So, another anti-semitic, pro-terrorist UN agency

Israel finds 6 drones amid UNRWA donations that entered West Bank this week
Israeli border inspectors busted the attempted smuggling from Jordan to the West Bank

UNRWA donations that entered into the West Bank from Jordan through the Allenby Bridge earlier this week contained six military drones, i24NEWS’ military correspondent Matthias Inbar has learned from Israeli security sources. The drones have been confiscated by Israeli security forces.

Soon to be classed by SloJoe as the next national monument or some such other BS way to lock it up.

Over 2 Billion Metric Tons of Rare Earth Minerals Discovered in Wyoming.

If the bureaucrats bureaucraps and politicians get out of the way, America is poised to become the world’s leading producer of rare earth minerals.

The last time we visited the issue of rare earth minerals at Legal Insurrection, the Chinese had shut down the export of 2 important rare earth metals used in semiconductor manufacture: gallium and germanium.

In December, China imposed a trade ban on rare earth extraction equipment.

The second shot was new trade ban imposed by China on specialized rare earth production equipment, which means rivals will have to develop their own processes for extracting commercial quantities of metals needed in a variety of technologies.

Rare earths have been a Chinese specialty for decades thanks to large deposits of ore and through the application of smart mining and treatment methods which evolved just in time to catch surging demand.

While not household names it would not be possible to run the modern world without neodymium, praseodymium, terbium, or dysprosium, four of the 17 elements that make up the rare earth family.

Now I have some good news to share. Our country could soon surpass China as the world leader in rare earth minerals after more than 2.34 billion metric tons were discovered in Wyoming.

American Rare Earths Inc announced that the reserves near Wheatland dramatically surpass the Asian nation’s 44 million metric tons, saying it ‘exceeded our wildest dreams’ after drilling only about 25 percent of the property.

The company has a stake in 367 mining claims across 6,320 acres of land in the Halleck Creek Project, along with four Wyoming mineral leases on 1,844 acres on the same project now called Cowboy State Mine.

The types of minerals at the site are used in smartphones, hybrid car motors and military technologies – among others.

Since China’s extraction ban, one company, American Rare Earths, has been working hard to expand our nation’s access options. It appears they may have struck the mother lode.

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U.S. Government Is Hiding Documents That Incriminate Intelligence Community For Illegal Spying And Election Interference, Say Sources: Former CIA Director Gina Haspel blocked the release of “binder” with evidence that may identify her role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

Last December 15th, as Americans decorated trees, lit Menorahs, and prepared to tune out for winter holidays, CNN ran an extraordinary article titled, “The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump.”

Co-authored by Natasha Bertrand, the gargantuan exposé claimed a mysterious “binder” of “highly classified information related to Russian election interference” went “missing” in the chaotic waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency in January 2021, raising concerns that some of America’s most “closely guarded national security secrets… could be exposed.”

CNN and its intelligence sources meant “exposure” in a bad way. Sources have told Public and Racket, however, that the secrets officials worry might be “exposed” are ones that would implicate them in widespread abuses of intelligence authority dating back to the 2015-2016 election season.

“I would call [the binder] Trump’s insurance policy,” said someone knowledgeable about the case. “He was very concerned about having it and taking it with him because it was the road map” of Russiagate.

Transgressions range from Justice Department surveillance of domestic political targets without probable cause to the improper unmasking of a pre-election conversation between a Trump official and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to WMD-style manipulation of intelligence for public reports on alleged Russian “influence activities.”

The CNN report claimed intelligence officials were concerned about the disclosure of “sources and methods that informed the U.S. government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election.”

They should be concerned. The story of how a team “hand-picked” by CIA Director John Brennan relied on “cooked intelligence” to craft that January 6th, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment is the subject of tomorrow’s story, the last in this three-part series.

Corruption, not tradecraft, is what officials are desperate to keep secret.

The ”missing binder” story has several variants. Sources offer differing answers on the question of whether anything of consequence is missing. They give mixed accounts of Trump’s frantic last efforts to declassify Russia-related material.

But nearly everyone Public and Racket spoke to agreed that the tale obscured a broader and more important story.

Dating back to the release of the so-called “Nunes memo” in 2018 exposing the corruption of the FISA application process, senior intelligence officials, including Trump’s CIA Director, Gina Haspel, have repeatedly blocked attempts to declassify information about the Trump-Russia investigation.

They had good reason to obstruct the release of these documents.

Special Counsel Robert Hur to Testify Publicly on Biden Age & Memory Issues

Special Counsel Robert Hur is preparing to be grilled by House lawmakers over his recent damning report that highlighted serious concerns with Democrat President Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness.

As Slay News reported, Hur last week released his report on his investigations into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.

While the conclusion of the report was already controversial, it was Hur’s rationale for not pursuing charges against Biden that caused the biggest stir.

Hur noted in his report that Biden struggled with basic questions during interviews, specifically regarding key elements of his own life.

According to the report, Biden couldn’t remember what year he left the vice presidential office or even when his son Beau died.

The special counsel concluded that a jury wouldn’t convict Biden once they realize he’s an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

The report compounds voters’ long-held concerns about the president’s age and obvious mental decline.

Hur’s testimony, expected to land in early March, would likely be before the House Judiciary Committee, Axios reported Thursday.

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Rantz: Seattle English students told it’s ‘white supremacy’ to love reading, writing

Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”

As part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School were given a handout with definitions of the “9 characteristics of white supremacy,” according to the father of a student. Given the subject matter of the class, the father found it odd this particular lesson was brought up.

The Seattle high schoolers were told that “Worship of the Written Word” is white supremacy because it is “an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.” By this definition, the very subject of World Literature and Composition is racist. It also chides the idea that we hyper-value written communication because it’s a form of “honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies.” The worksheet does not provide any context for what it actually means.

“I feel bad for any students who actually internalize stuff like this as it is setting them up for failure,” the father explained to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.

Everything is ‘white supremacy’ at Seattle Public Schools

The father asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution against his child by Seattle Public Schools. He said the other pieces of the worksheet were equally disturbing.

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More Banana Republic every day.

Biden DOJ arrests former FBI informant who said Biden took bribes from Ukrainian energy company
Alexander Smirnov, 43, was arrested on Thursday at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.

On Thursday, special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant who claimed President Biden was bribed by Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma. The indictment claims the informant lied about Biden’s alleged role in the business dealings.

Alexander Smirnov, 43, was arrested on Thursday at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, per CNN.

Smirnov has been accused in the indictment that his story to the FBI “was a fabrication, an amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings and contacts that had actually occurred but at a later date than he claimed and for the purpose of pitching Burisma on the Defendant’s services and products, not for discussing bribes to [Joe Biden] when he was in office.”

The informant, who has now been identified as Smirnov, provided testimony to House Republicans and their investigation into the Biden family’s alleged illegal foreign business dealings. He claimed that Burisma executives paid President Biden and his son Hunter Biden $5 million each to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who had been investigating Burisma at the time.

The informant claimed that the bribery occurred while Biden was vice president serving under Barack Obama.

The indictment states, “In truth and fact, the Defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the Obama-Biden Administration and after the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016, in other words, when [Joe Biden] had no ability to influence U.S. policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office.”

“In short, the Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Joe Biden], the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against [Joe Biden] and his candidacy,” it continues.

 To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment.

In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment.

It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, and in 2022, the Court further expanded its support for Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen—a decision whose far-reaching implications are still being unraveled.

To Trust the People with Arms explores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the nation’s founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme Court in the twenty-first century.

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Tenant shoots, kills intruder and injures another during suspected home invasion

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – An early morning home invasion ended with two men shot, police said. One died, while a second man was in critical condition, according to the Memphis Police Department (MPD).

Police said the two men broke into an apartment at the Cedarwoods Apartments in Raleigh. Police said the person renting the apartment woke up and saw the suspects breaking in and shot them.

FOX13 spoke to neighbors who live near the apartment unit where the shooting happened. “We were in bed and we heard about 15 rounds of gunshots,” said Mallorie Haley. “He heard, like, ‘Get away from here, get away from here!”

Van Buford lives with Haley. Buford and Haley told FOX13 they could hear the exchange between the tenant and the suspects. “He said, ‘They tried to break in my house. I killed somebody, and that’s when we heard another guy scream, ‘Help, help, help!”

Memphis Police were called to the Cedarwoods Apartments around 3 a.m. Wednesday.

MPD spokesman Chris Williams told FOX13 it will be up to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office on whether the tenant gets charged.

“We’ll present the facts, evidence to his office and they will make the determination if charges should be rendered in this case,” said Williams.

Buford told FOX13, he just wishes the crime would stop.

“Every day you look on the news, somebody’s doing something, somebody’s getting killed. This is reckless and people just don’t care anymore,” said Buford.

FOX13 will update this story when new information is available.