Video shows store employee shooting at armed robbery suspect in New Orleans East incident

NEW ORLEANS — Surveillance video reveals the tense moments leading up to a fatal shooting during an armed robbery at a convenience store in New Orleans East.

The shooting happened in the 8400 Blk of S I-10 Service Road around 7:50 p.m. Tuesday.

The store employee told WWL Louisiana that two young people walked in with guns and demanded cash. 16-year-old Cecil Batiz was killed in the incident. Police identified the other suspect as 18-year-old Teony Juarez.

To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their luscious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. This, sir, is what I long for.
– Colonel Francis Marion, Continental Army. The Swamp Fox

Chris Martz
Why do most climate activists oppose nuclear power? I’ll tell you why.

It has nothing to do with the cost to deploy; it is actually pretty cheap without burdensome compliance regulations.
It has nothing to do with radioactive waste; that is easily compactible into steel and concrete casks, and much of it is in fact reusable.
Instead, their vitriol towards nuclear is an artifact of their Malthusian religion. They maintain that industrial processes are harming the planet and the only way to avert catastrophe is to decarbonize our economy rapidly and stop economic growth by abolishing capitalism.
Many in fact admit that is their intention. Solar and wind are their preferred energy technologies.

Why?

Because they are intermittent electricity generation sources. The activists know that neither solar nor wind can serve as the baseload to power modern civilization. It’s simply not feasible with current technologies [which is why they require fossil fuel backup when there is no sunlight reaching the panels or wind blowing to turn the turbine blades].

This means that supply must be rationed. Nuclear, on the contrary, can.
France runs 70% of their grid on it.
Fission is symbolic of an economically prosperous future.

Solar and wind are symbolic of what the degrowthers want.
It’s essentially a population control grift.

Some activist academics have gone so far as to say that the planet has too many people. But, they never take the liberty to decarbonize themselves and net zero their own existence. Oh, no.
There is just the right amount of them, but too little of us.

They don’t care about the planet; as George Carlin once said, they only care about having their own space to live. Their own little habitat. It’s narcissism guised as environmentalism.

You and I are the carbon that they want to reduce. It’s that simple.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Vs. Sonia Sotomayor: Who’s Dumber?

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a pivotal case addressing state restrictions on controversial medical interventions, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors with gender confusion. At the heart of the case is a Tennessee law banning these procedures for children, with the court’s decision likely to have far-reaching consequences. Will our country protect children from these barbaric and irreversible procedures or not?

As I previously reported, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson humiliated herself when she bizarrely tried to equate banning transgender procedures for minors with prohibiting interracial marriage. She began with a convoluted statement: “Being drawn by the statute that was sort of like the starting point, the question was whether it was discriminatory because it applied to both races and it wasn’t necessarily invidious or whatever.”

It got worse from there.

“But you know, as I read … the case here, the court starts off by saying that Virginia is now one of 16 states which prohibit and punish marriages on the basis of racial classifications.” While it was clear that she intended to invoke historical racial discrimination, the connection to the case at hand was tenuous at best.

The real stretch came when she concluded, “And when you look at the structure of that law, it looks in terms of you can’t do something that is inconsistent with your own characteristics. It’s sort of the same thing.”

The suggestion that anyone could somehow liken laws protecting minors from irreversible and harmful gender procedures to bans on interracial marriage is downright absurd. Jackson’s argument hinged on a confusing assertion that both types of laws were based on “inconsistency” with one’s “characteristics,” a comparison that is frankly laughable and dumb.

But she wasn’t the only left-wing justice on the court to make a dumb argument.

While speaking before the court, Tennessee’s Solicitor General asked, “How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?”

And that’s when Justice Sonia Sotomayor promptly jumped in.

“I’m sorry, Counselor,” she said, interrupting him. “Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin, there is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that’s going to suffer a harm.”

That’s right. Sotomayor, the so-called “wise Latina,” compared cutting off the healthy breasts and genitals of minors to taking aspirin.
Which justice made the dumber argument? Jackson bizarrely compared Tennessee’s ban on gender procedures for minors to bans on interracial marriage, claiming that both involve “inconsistency” with inherent characteristics. The analogy was a spectacular failure as protecting minors from irreversible harm has nothing to do with racial discrimination.

Meanwhile, Sotomayor trivialized the issue by likening the risks of permanent, life-altering surgeries on minors to those of taking aspirin. This flippant dismissal of the severe, irreversible consequences of such procedures demonstrates a shocking lack of seriousness.

Both arguments are embarrassingly absurd, making it difficult to determine which is more moronic. One thing is for sure: both are an embarrassment to the court.

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Healthcare CEO Killer Inscribed These Words on the Bullet Casings

Leah covered this story earlier today: Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in what looks like a professional hit job. The targeted killing occurred around 6:45 AM, outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where an investors meeting was being held. In the video footage, the killer is seen shooting Mr. Thompson with a suppressed firearm in the leg and back before finishing him off.

There’s a new chilling clue regarding this premeditated killing: bullet casings were found at the scene, with “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” on them:

Mr. Thompson was the subject of a Justice Department investigation for insider trading (via NY Post):

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice when he was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday. 

Thompson — who was killed in what police called a targeted shooting outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown — exercised stock options and sold shares worth $15.1 million on Feb. 16, less than two weeks before news of the federal antitrust probe went public, according to a Crain’s New York Business report from April. 

The stock price dropped sharply after the revelation that the DOJ was investigating whether the company had made acquisitions that consolidated its market position in violation of antitrust laws, a source familiar with the probe told the outlet. 

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PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE SAYS THE BIOTECH VACCINES HAVE LOTS OF DNA IN THEM …..IT CAN REPLICATE AND IT COULD BE TRANSMITTED FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER

The most comprehensive study on Vax DNA sails through peer review.

Ulrike Kammerer, Verena Schulz and Klaus Steger just published a bombshell in a peer reviewed journal.

I was invited to peer review this paper but declined as I felt having me review this would be viewed as inside baseball. For this to stand the test of time, we cannot resort to the boys club bullshit exhibited by the Faucists.

There are several aspects of this paper that are worth reviewing in detail. The paper not only settles some of the methods debate ongoing in the field regarding how to best quantitate the DNA in these vaccines, but it also transfects HEK cells with the vaccines and demonstrates the spike expresses for longer than 7 days and it doesn’t stay parked on the cell membrane. It get packaged and into exosomes and presumably exported all over the body.

This is an important finding as exosomes are exhaled and exported to the surface of the skin. This has major implications for the shedding story. If these exosomes contain plasmids, then the gig is up. That implies transmissible and potentially replication competent DNA that encodes spike protein and SV40 components. Its not clear if these plasmids will express spike protein in mammalian cells as the T7 promoter should only be active in bacterial cells but your body is loaded with bacteria and bactofection is a thing.

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MSM silence as health coalition urges governments: Stop the jabs now.

ON MONDAY November 25 an international group of politicians, leading medical and other professionals, supported by Professor Francis Boyle, author of the US ‘Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorist Act of 1989’, wrote to the heads of state of ten European countries, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, calling for a suspension of modified mRNA vaccines citing serious health concerns. Ireland joined the call later in the week. The indefatigable retired paediatrician Ros Jones once more has been a leading light in organising it.

As the newly formed North Group they sent the letter as a ‘notice of extreme concern’ regarding excessive levels of residual DNA identified in Australian vaccine samples that confirmed similar findings from France, Germany, Canada, and the USA. Their notice warned that the introduction of foreign DNA into cells via lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) may damage human DNA leading to genomic instability, cancer and other extremely serious conditions. It also pointed out that:

● It was a lottery as to which batch a person received and the side effects – including death – they experienced.

● Vaccines were never tested for their ability to block transmission. Medical product regulators, as well as government agencies, misled the public when coercing them into accepting the products.

● Multiple independent analyses show that modified mRNA vaccines contain variable but alarmingly high levels of residual DNA.

All these issues, the long list of international signatories agree, are grounds for extreme concern regarding risks to human health and potential for genetic damage that were never accounted for scientifically in the authorisation process of the novel mRNA vaccines. This is why they are calling for:

● An immediate halt to the use of modified mRNA vaccines.

● An independent and transparent investigation into their approval and use.

● Scientific evidence that shows that there is no risk of damage to human DNA.

This initiative dovetails with one in Australia led by Russell Broadbent, the Federal Member for Monash, and is thanks to the groundbreaking work of Dr Kevin McKernan.

You can link to the full press briefing here. The letter and supporting document, both of which have been sent to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Secretary of State for Health Wes Streeting, as well as to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and the Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Dame Sue Hill, are here and here.

Predictably but still shockingly, there has once again been a closing of ranks with national media outlets to date declining to report on the North Group’s press release due, they say, to ‘editorial policy’.

The person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle, then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.
Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama

UnitedHealthcare CEO Shot and Killed Outside Hotel in Gun-Controlled NYC

Fifty-year-old UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed by a masked gunman outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan as he arrived for a conference around 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday.

The New York Post reported the masked attacker fired “repeatedly” at Thompson then “fled eastbound off of 6th Avenue.”

Thompson was shot in the chest during the attack and rushed to the hospital thereafter, where he died.

ABC 7 noted police believe the shooting was targeted but they do not know a motive. The masked attacker is still on the loose.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks New York the No. 2 state in the Union for gun control laws, making the Empire State second only to California.

New York has universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a red flag law, gun storage requirements, a microstamping requirement for new pistols, a ban on college carry for self-defense, a ban on campus carry on K-12 campuses for classroom defense, a “sensitive places” ban for licensed concealed carriers, and much more.

State Preemption Laws Hold Anti-Gunners In Check…For Now

Mentioned prominently in the second paragraph of a report in the Altoona, Pennsylvania Mirror about gun control in the Keystone State is the notation that 42 states have what is commonly known as a firearms preemption statute.

Such laws, which place sole authority for firearms regulations in the hands of state legislatures, are the most important roadblock to anti-gun local governments; blue cities in otherwise red or purple states. Possibly the best example of how local politicians dislike preemption laws is Seattle, Washington, where a string of liberal mayors including current Mayor Bruce Harrell, have lobbied the legislature to repeal the law. Not long after Harrell took office in early 2022, he complained that Washington was “one of a few” states with such statutes. He was immediately—and publicly—corrected by Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

“Harrell and other anti-gunners would have us roll back the calendar to a time when a literal state of confusion existed in Washington,” Gottlieb said at the time. “Before preemption was wisely adopted by the State Legislature, we had a checkerboard of often conflicting local gun regulations. State lawmakers properly took control of this mess and cleaned it up with a single set of regulations that apply equally from the Canada border to the Columbia River.”

The same situation applies to Pennsylvania, and every other state where preemption laws provide uniformity from one state border to the other.

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He’s back!

At 104, a respected Pearl Harbor veteran returns to Hawaii for a somber anniversary

Ira 'Ike' Schab Jr. is one of the few remaining Pearl Harbor survivors.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A 104-year-old respected war veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor is back in Hawaii.

Ira “Ike” Schab Jr. of Portland touched down in Honolulu Tuesday ahead of the 83rd commemoration the attack on Pearl Harbor. He’s one of the few remaining survivors of that day, and the only one left from the USS Dobbin.

His flight was met with a water cannon salute, and at the gate, sounds of the Navy’s U.S. Pacific Fleet Band filled the air.

“What do you remember from that day?” he was asked.

“Oh, being scared, more than anything else,” he replied. “Wondering about my brothers. Where they were.”

As a musician in the Navy band, Schab was starting a seemingly quiet day when the attack in 1941 began. He quickly sprung into action, feeding ammunition to the gunners.

All these years later, he’s back in the islands to commemorate the solemn anniversary, and the lives of those lost.

“I’m one of the very few left — and they deserve to be recognized and honored,” he added.

For many years, Ike’s family said he didn’t want to return to the islands because the memories of the attack were just too painful.

“It was an embarrassment for a long time,” Ike said about the attack. His son Karl Schab added, “In the time, it was kind of a shock the United States that we were attacked and so the embarrassment was real. And then when I was stationed here, I said, ‘Hey dad, come out and visit.’ He said, ‘No I really don’t have any desire to relive that.’”

However, several years ago during the 75th anniversary, he changed his mind after seeing how few survivors remained.

”He said, ‘As long as I’m able to make the trip, I want to make the trip for the people that can’t make the trip,’” Karl said.

He’s since returned to Pearl Harbor annually. Joining him from Portland this year are 14 of his family members and caregivers.

“It’s a real chicken-skin moment. It’s tearful, it’s so special and meaningful to be a part of that,” John Kim, president of Hawaiian Airlines’ Veterans Employee Network, said.

“It’s important for us as Americans to recognize service men and women like Ike because they helped to shape the foundation of our country and allows us to be free,” Kim added.

The cost to get him to the islands and ensure care is available around the clock is steep, and family members have set up a GoFundMe to help pay for various expenses. It has already raised more than $4,300.

As Ike reflects on the past, his service is celebrated, and the memory of his fellow sailors lives on.

“What do you want your legacy to be remembered by?” he was asked. “That I remembered them. This is a second home,” he said.

“So your country can’t survive unless it’s ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion?”

Trudeau Tells Trump Canada Wouldn’t Survive His Tariff, and Trump’s Response Is Priceless.

Canada’s vapid and callow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an emergency trip to Mar-a-Lago Friday to see the president-elect. Trudeau was thoroughly alarmed over Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canada (as well as Mexico) if they don’t do anything to stop the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into the United States. Trudeau was clearly hoping to talk some socialist internationalist sense into Bad Orange Man, but instead, the vacant-faced Canadian authoritarian got a response that was pure Trump, and revealed once again how deeply Trump holds his America-First principles.

Fox News reported Monday that Trump has called his meeting with the vacuous and childlike Canadian leader “very productive,” but apparently not in the way that Canada’s most prominent Swiftie had hoped it would be. The atmosphere was convivial, with the two men “nibbling on crab cocktail and slurping down oysters” as they discussed “the issues of tariffs, border security and trade deficits.” Yet for all the superficial chumminess of the affair, Trump remained focused on what he wanted from Canada: “While cordial and welcoming,” he was “very direct when it came to what he wants from his counterpart to the North.”

Trump reportedly told Trudeau that “Canada has failed the U.S. border by allowing large amounts of drugs and people across the border, including illegal immigrants from over 70 different countries.” The once-and-future president “became more animated when it came to the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which he estimated to be more than $100 billion,” and told his shallow Canadian counterpart that “if Canada cannot fix the border issues and trade deficit, he will levy a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods on day one when he returns to office.”

That was when Trudeau started whining and claiming victimhood status. After all, what else would you expect a leftist to do? Trudeau knows that playing the victim is the pathway to fame, favor, and fortune on the left, and apparently, he assumed this to be a universal tendency. So he told Trump, probably with tears glistening in eyes, that he just couldn’t impose such a tariff “because it would kill the Canadian economy completely.” There is nothing in the available reports about Trudeau offering to do anything about stopping the flow of migrants and drugs over the border. He just wanted Trump to withdraw his threat for nothing, out of his concern for the well-being of Canada.

Trudeau doesn’t seem to have realized, however, the implications of the fact that Trump is not a fellow socialist internationalist. It isn’t that he doesn’t care about Canadians; it’s that as president of the United States, he will act in the best interests of Americans. It’s actually Trudeau’s job, not Trump’s, to act in the best interests of Canadians.

And so the America-First president-elect asked Trudeau, “So your country can’t survive unless it’s ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion?” Driving his point home, Trump “suggested to Trudeau that Canada become the 51st state, which caused the prime minister and others to laugh nervously.” Displaying his never-failing sense of humor, Trump then told Trudeau “that prime minister is a better title, though he could still be governor of the 51st state.” Someone at the meeting, according to Fox News, then warned Trump that as a state, Canada would be deep blue, whereupon Trump suggested it become two states, a leftist one and a patriotic one.

Fox noted that “while sources say the exchange got many laughs, Trump delivered the message that he expected change by January 20.” Trudeau went away knowing very well that Trump means business and isn’t going to play the same game that he would have played with Obama or Biden. Neither of them would have threatened tariffs over the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into the United States in the first place, and if they did offer any criticism of Canadian policy at all, it would have been toothless rhetoric that would have been forgotten as soon as the meeting was over.

Trump, by contrast, is making it clear that he is very serious about tackling the problems that beset his nation, and doing everything he can to solve them. That there are so many Americans, as well as Canadians and others, who strenuously oppose his efforts to do so is an indication of how severe those problems really are.

Burglary suspect shot by Northern California homeowner, arrested following pursuit

A homeowner in Sacramento shot an intruder, who then went on to steal a car and lead police on a lengthy pursuit before being taken into custody, authorities said.

The attempted break-in took place about 3 p.m. Friday in a residential neighborhood in the 7200 block of Chandler Drive, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.

Officials said the would-be burglar arrived at the home and began trying to break windows in an attempt to get inside.

“The homeowner, who was home with his family, yelled at the intruder several times to stop,” the sheriff’s department said in a written statement. The intruder refused and continued trying to smash windows.

An alleged burglar was shot by a homeowner in Sacramento before stealing a car, smashing it through the door of a closed garage and leading deputies on an hour-long pursuit on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, officials said.
“The homeowner, fearing for his safety and that of his family, shot at (the suspect) from inside the residence, striking (him) in the hand,” according to the statement.

Authorities said the wounded suspect then ran to another nearby house, where no one was home, and managed to get inside.

He then found the keys to a car that was parked in the garage and drove it through a closed garage door, sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies caught up with the just-stolen car and tried to pull it over, leading to a pursuit.

The chase continued for about an hour before deputies used a PIT maneuver to bring it to an end at Highway 99 and Arno Road, officials said. The suspect was then taken into custody.

Emelio Correa, 40, was treated for his injuries at a hospital before being booked into jail on suspicion of burglary, auto theft, vandalism and evading police, according to sheriff’s officials and county booking records.

Bail was set at $100,000 pending an initial court appearance.

California Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Smith & Wesson Over Synagogue Shooting

On the last day of Passover in 2019 a 19-year-old man walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California and opened fire, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring three others, including the synagogue’s rabbi. The shooter, who fled the synagogue after his gun jammed and was taken into custody by police a short time later, was ultimately sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for his shooting spree.

The gun control group Brady, working with some of the victims of the Poway shooting, filed suit against gunmaker Smith & Wesson, as well as San Diego Guns, the store that sold the rifle to the shooter. In 2021 a judge on Superior Court of California for San Diego County allowed the lawsuit to proceed despite the arguments from the gunmaker that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act precluded lawsuits seeking to hold gunmakers responsible for the acts of criminals, but this week Superior Court Judge Wendy Behan granted Smith & Wesson’s motion to dismiss after determining that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act does apply to the case.

In her decision, Behan noted that while the PLCAA generally preempts civil actions for damages and injunctive relief against gun makers and sellers arising from the criminal misuse of firearms, there is a “predicate exception” that allows litigation when “where a manufacturer or seller knowingly violated a State or Federal Statute applicable to the sale or marketing of the product, where violation proximately caused the harm” that led to the lawsuit.

In this case, Brady and the plaintiffs contended that Smith & Wesson knowingly violated California’s prohibition on the possession of “assault weapons”, the federal prohibition on the sale of full-auto “machineguns”, and California’s prohibition on “deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising”. This was one of the first cases where a gun control group tried to argue that legally, there’s no functional difference between a semi-automatic rifle and a full-auto machine gun, but Behan shot down that claim in her decision.

Plaintiffs allege that the rifle used in the shooting was a fully automatic “machinegun” because it could allegedly be modified, thereby violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(4). However, the evidence shows the rifle used, the M&P 15, is a California-compliant semi-automatic rifle not designed to function as a machinegun.

The US Supreme Court recently held in Garland v. Cargill (2024) 602 U.S.406, 410: “[s]emi-automatic firearms, which require shooters to reengage the trigger for every shot, are not machineguns” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b).

While plaintiffs argue that modifications could make the rifle illegal, there is no evidence that the shooter intended to or did modify the firearm. Forty-year-old ATF agency interpretations relied upon by plaintiffs are not binding on this court and ultimately lack relevance due to the lack of ambiguity in the statutory definition of a machinegun, which excludes firearms not originally designed for automatic fire.

The evidence remains undisputed that that Smith & Wesson “S&W” manufactured the rifle as a semiautomatic firearm, and the shooter used the rifle as a semi-automatic firearm.

Gun control advocates, including officials for the city of Chicago, are making essentially the same argument in their lawsuit against Glock; that the semi-automatic pistols should be treated like they’re full-auto machine guns because they can be illegally converted to full-auto fire. While Behan’s ruling won’t have a direct impact on that litigation, her reasoning can and should be applied to Chicago’s lawsuit.

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