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  • Potential Sale Of Americans’ DNA May Trigger National Security Review

    Potential Sale Of Americans’ DNA May Trigger National Security Review

    23andMe has been sharing consumer data with “pharmaceutical companies,” including the “Ministry of Defense of Russia.”

    (ZeroHedge) – The U.S. Department of Justice submitted a formal notice to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, which is overseeing the Chapter 11 case of defunct 23andMe Holding Co. (Case No. 25-40976), warning that the potential sale of its assets—including a gigantic pool of millions of Americans’ genetic data—may trigger a national security review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

    U.S. Attorney Sayler Fleming wrote in a filing that 23andMe is prohibited from selling the genetic data of more than 15 million customers to “covered persons”—companies classified as foreign entities that are 50% or more owned by entities based in countries such as China, Russia, and North Korea.

    Fleming’s notice does not ask U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brian Walsh to take action against any potential 23andMe transactions. Instead, the U.S. government is requesting that CFIUS review any sale of genetic data to ensure foreign adversaries are not using shell companies to acquire it.

    Safeguarding the gigantic pool of genetic data of Americans is a national security priority because of the increasing risk that precision bioweapons can be designed to target specific genetic traits or ethnic groups, based on shared DNA markers.

    For example, if a hostile actor or rogue group linked to Iran or the Chinese Communist Party accessed genomic data, they could develop pathogens that are more virulent or lethal to those with certain genetic traits.

    Last month, James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group stoked maximum fears after releasing a video featuring an undercover journalist speaking with Nathaniel Johnson, a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

    In the footage, Johnson suggested that 23andMe may have already sold off users’ genetic data: “Do not give your information to those people [23andMe]… they sell it to other people.”

    Johnson explained: “There’s a clause in their contract, that basically says, like, we can give your information to our shareholders. So that they can do stuff. And all of their shareholders are, like pharmaceutical companies. But some of those pharmaceutical companies are based in other countries, and those pharmaceutical companies in other countries are like the property of, like the Ministry of Defense of Russia. Or, like, owned, by China.”

    The risks of genetic data being weaponized for biological warfare should be on the minds of the Trump administration as the great power competition with China goes into hyperdrive by the 2030s.

    Read the filing here: [SCRIBD]

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    April 18, 2025

  • Man convicted of fatally strangling his estranged wife after their separation in 1988

    WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. (TCN) — An elderly man has been convicted of fatally strangling his estranged wife whose body was found in a trunk nearly 37 years ago.

    On April 17, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office said a jury found 70-year-old Robert Atrops guilty of second-degree murder in connection with the 1988 death of Deborah Atrops. Robert Atrops will be sentenced on May 20.

    According to prosecutors, around the time of her slaying, Deborah Atrops and the defendant experienced marital problems, including alleged physical abuse, and they separated. The victim, who had recently adopted an infant daughter with Robert Atrops, reportedly planned to divorce him.

    Co-workers and friends allegedly witnessed “concerning domestic violence behavior” between Deborah Atrops and the defendant shortly before the victim died. Deborah Atrops had also reportedly began a relationship with a co-worker, which the defendant had confronted her about. The victim allegedly feared that Robert Atrops would kill her.

    On Nov. 29, 1988, Deborah Atrops left her job for a hair appointment and then planned to pick up her daughter from her estranged husband’s residence. That night, the defendant reportedly called friends, family, and law enforcement to report the victim’s disappearance. According to prosecutors, Robert Atrops said he made the calls from his home phone, but investigators believe he made them from somewhere else.

    Police responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle at a remote construction site days later, on Dec. 1, 1988. The vehicle’s window was open with the keys inside, but it didn’t have any plates. Authorities determined the car belonged to Deborah Atrops, and they found her body inside the trunk. She was reportedly wearing mud-covered clothes, and there was also mud smeared on the hood, steering wheel, gear shift, and a tire. An autopsy later revealed Deborah Atrops died by manual strangulation.

    According to prosecutors, Robert Atrops told police that he didn’t see his estranged wife that night, but investigators weren’t able to confirm his statement. No arrests were made at the time, and the case went cold for decades.

    The case was reopened in 2020, and authorities submitted the victim’s clothing and soil samples for testing. A break came when investigators found the defendant’s DNA on a coat Deborah Atrops was wearing when she died. Prosecutors said the mud found at the scene also matched mud from the defendant’s home. Investigators learned Robert Atrops sold roofing materials at construction sites near where his estranged wife’s body was located.

    In 2022, a detective interviewed Robert Atrops and noticed “significant discrepancies from his version of events in 1988.”

    • Robert Atrops Found Guilty in the 1988 Cold Case Homicide of Deborah Atrops – Washington County District Attorney’s Office
    • Man arrested more than 3 decades after his estranged wife’s body was found in trunk, 3/3/2023 – TCN

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Strategy

    Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Strategy

    Biden administration allegedly “censoring disfavored speech on the Internet by labeling such speech ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ ‘hate speech,’ ‘domestic terrorism.’” ~America First Legal

    Joseph Lord | The Epoch Times

    Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on April 16 fulfilled her past promise to declassify information related to President Joe Biden’s domestic counterterrorism strategy.

    Dubbed the “Strategic Implementation Plan” (SIP), the 15-page-long document details the Biden administration’s findings and action plan to counter an alleged increase in homegrown domestic terrorism.

    Gabbard released the documents in response to prompting from conservative groups like America First Legal, which expressed concerns about the Biden administration allegedly “censoring disfavored speech on the Internet by labeling such speech ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ ‘hate speech,’ ‘domestic terrorism.’”

    Coming in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, after which the Biden administration claimed that domestic terrorism was the greatest terror threat the United States faced, the SIP represents the government-wide counterterrorism strategy.

    DOWN LOAD DOCUMENT (SCRIBT)

    Here’s what the declassified documents show.

    Four-Pillared Plan

    The plan in the declassified documents is based on four pillars:

    1. “Understand and Share Domestic Terrorism-Related Information,”
    2. “Prevent Domestic Terrorism Recruitment and Mobilization to Violence,” 
    3. “Disrupt and Deter Domestic Terrorism Activity,” and 
    4. “Confront Long-Term Contributors to Domestic Terrorism.”

    The broad goals laid out by the plan included identifying and intervening with “potentially dangerous individuals,” “strengthen[ing] norms of non-violent political expression and rejection of racism and bigotry,” and increasing Americans’ “faith in democracy and the government.”

    The plan called for dedicated research and analysis of domestic terrorism, including any potential links to international organizations or governments.

    To the same end, it called for increased information sharing within federal law enforcement related to domestic terrorism.

    Additionally, this pillar proposed that the government “explore” ways to identify domestic terrorism through financial activity, including through greater involvement with financial institutions and scrutiny of citizens’ financial records.

    It also called for the government to “Enhance [its] understanding of how foreign state and non-state information operations, particularly disinformation, relate to the domestic terrorism threat.”

    That’s essentially federal government parlance for analyzing the impact of foreign actors online.

    The Biden administration and Democrats repeatedly claimed that Russian “trolls” were responsible for spreading disinformation and misinformation online.

    Relatedly, the SIP reveals a plan to “implement evidence-based digital literacy programming to combat online disinformation and DT recruitment and narratives.”

    The plan also calls for the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, among others, to “share with relevant technology and other private-industry companies, as appropriate and as expeditiously as possible and on a consistent basis, relevant information on [domestic terrorism]-related and associated transnational terrorist online content.”

    It called for guardrails on information-sharing with technology companies, factoring in “legal, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties review.”

    Many conservatives have long been critical of alleged collusion between federal agencies and tech platforms, with many saying that the Biden administration sought to censor and deplatform conservative viewpoints in violation of the First Amendment.

    Social Proposals

    The final pillar of the plan, calling to “confront long-term contributors to domestic terrorism,” is laden with potentially controversial social proposals.

    This section identifies “ghost guns”—unregistered weapons without a serial number, often created via 3D printer—as one such contributor, and calls to “[r]ein in the proliferation” of such weapons, “encourage state adoption of extreme risk protection orders, and drive other executive and legislative action including banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”

    It also called for “advancing inclusion” as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic to “mitigate xenophobia and bias.”

    This would be in order to “address hate crime reporting barriers faced by disadvantaged communities by promoting law enforcement training and resources to prevent and address bias-motivated crimes,” according to the SIP.

    Additionally, the plan encouraged “teaching and learning of civics education that provides students with the skill to fully participate in civic life,” and promoting “literacy education for both children and adult learners and existing proven interventions to foster resiliency to disinformation.”

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    We decided to give the final word to Matt Margolis over at PJMedia (worth a read): who summarized this shitshow perfectly:

    The founding fathers would be rolling in their graves…

    Let’s cut through the bureaucratic noise and call this what it really is: a systematic blueprint for targeting and silencing conservative Americans. 

    While Biden was preaching “unity” from his teleprompter, his administration was quietly crafting plans to turn Big Tech into their personal censorship machine.

    Remember this  the next time you hear Democrats pontificating about “defending democracy.” 

    They’ve shown us exactly what they mean by “democracy,” and it looks nothing like the Constitutional Republic our founders envisioned.

    Well said, Matt.

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  • Colo. man convicted of posing as wife’s ex, stalking, and fatally stabbing her in the heart

    BROOMFIELD, Colo. (TCN) — A jury found a 44-year-old man guilty of multiple charges, including murder, for posing as his wife’s ex-boyfriend, stalking her, then beating and stabbing her to death in their home.

    On Dec. 14, 2023, Broomfield Police Department officers went to a home on the 3100 block of Promontory Loop for a welfare check and found 43-year-old Kristil Krug deceased inside. Four days later, investigators arrested her husband, Daniel Krug, on one count of first-degree murder. The 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office formally charged him on Dec. 21, 2023, with first-degree murder, two counts of stalking, and one count of criminal impersonation.

    According to the district attorney’s office, starting around October 2023, Krug reportedly began stalking his estranged wife and “carried out an elaborate scheme to impersonate a fictitious stalker, attempting to frame an ex-boyfriend of Kristil’s who lived in Utah.” The ex-boyfriend, however, had a “verifiable alibi” and police did not find any proof that he traveled to Colorado.

    Daniel Krug reportedly bought burner phones, created fake email addresses, harassed her online, and “terrorized Kristil under the false identity.” Krug reportedly shared a photo from the fake account of him showing up to work “to support the illusion that someone was stalking both of them.” Kristil Krug became scared for her safety due to the stalking, so she started carrying a gun and taking firearm safety classes. Her kids knew about the stalker, and undercover police got involved to help figure out the person’s identity.

    On Dec. 14, 2023, just before 8 a.m., Kristil Krug came home from dropping her kids off at school and entered her garage. Daniel Krug was reportedly “lying in wait,” where he “ambushed Kristil from behind, striking her in the head multiple times with a blunt object before fatally stabbing her in the heart.”

    Daniel Krug reportedly tried to mislead detectives by sending texts from Kristil Krug’s phone to her brother and to a Broomfield Police detective about how she had been unfaithful. Those claims, however, were false. Daniel Krug used her phone to turn off the home security system and then covered the doorbell camera with tape.

    Video footage showed Krug leaving the house at 8:24 a.m., which was about 30 minutes later than the time he typically left. He deactivated his car’s dashcam, then bought coffee before driving to work at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He called and texted Kristil Krug at around noon, then called police and requested a welfare check. Officers arrived at their home at 12:28 p.m., and she was declared dead at 12:43 p.m.

    The district attorney’s office said the evidence “pointed directly to Daniel,” including a phone being at the exact locations as his personal phone several times, as well as one of the fake email addresses being created on his work network. He reportedly Google searched on Dec. 13, 2023, “How hard would you have to hit someone in the head to make them unconscious?” and “How long can you be unconscious without brain damage?”

    Krug’s trial lasted two weeks, and on Thursday, April 17, a jury found him guilty of all charges. The murder conviction has a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

    • Broomfield Defendant Convicted of Murdering, Stalking Wife Following Multi-Week Trial – 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office
    • Promontory Loop Homicide Arrest, 12/18/2023 – Broomfield Police Department
    • 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Files First-Degree Murder Charge Against Daniel Krug, 12/23/2023 – 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Biden WH Cover-Up Exposed

    Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of Nashville School Shooter “Manifesto” Records
    White House Revisions to Biden Special Counsel Interview Transcript Revealed
    Did Democrat Arizona AG Announce Trump ‘Investigation’ to Sway Election?
    Public Pre-K-8 “Inclusivity” Books Push Gender Transitioning, Drag Queens
    Happy Easter!

     

    Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of Nashville School Shooter “Manifesto” Records

    We just received 112 pages of documents of the “manifesto” of the March 27, 2023, shooter at The Covenant School in Tennessee. The records were an interim release in response to our FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01483)).

    The records detail the shooter’s violent thoughts, the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on the Covenant School, and transgender-related distress. The records show she considered an attack on a mall but did not pursue it because of the facility’s security measures.

    The Covenant School killer’s ‘manifesto’ records are exceedingly disturbing but should have been released long ago. We appreciate the Trump administration’s transparency. These records may help Americans understand and perhaps better prevent and protect their schools and other targets from mass shooters.

    Separately, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (Hammond et al. v. Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al. (No. 23-0538-III)). The lawsuit is on appeal after a lower court upheld efforts to keep all the records secret.

     

    White House Revisions to Biden Special Counsel Interview Transcript Revealed

    Joe Biden’s handlers, including his White House lawyers, bent over backwards to prevent the American people from learning that he wasn’t up to the job.

    We’re adding to the evidence.

    Judicial Watch received 52 pages of documents from the U.S. Department of Justice showing White House staffers suggesting edits to transcripts of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding his handling of secret documents.

    We received the documents thanks to our FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records of communication between the agency and White House regarding the altered transcripts of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s October 2023 interviews of President Biden in the criminal investigation into Biden’s theft and disclosure of classified records (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-02176)).

    In a separate lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a federal court ordered the Department of Justice to declare whether it intends to continue denying Judicial Watch’s request for the full audio of former President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. The Trump Justice Department has until May 20, 2025, to report its position on the release of the videotape.   (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-00700))

    Also, previously in that lawsuit, we forced the Biden administration to confess that the transcripts of the audio recordings have been altered and are not accurate.

    The new documents provided in this case include a chart of suggested changes by Biden White House and personal lawyers to the transcript. Also included are emails that detail Biden lawyer Bob Bauer’s requesting access to interview exhibits and a meeting with the special counsel to discuss the case. Justice Department official Marc Krickbaum confirmed most White House revisions to the transcript were accepted, including minor clarifications and changes potentially masking Biden’s confusion, such as correcting who said “Yeah” or altering references to Biden’s Delaware garage and President Biden’s seeming inability to recall the name of the Defense Secretary.

    These documents provide an extraordinary insight into a cover-up of the White House of Biden’s cognitive challenges. The Bondi Justice Department should follow up with the full release of the actual audio of President Biden’s disastrous interview with the special counsel on his document theft and mishandling.

    On October 12, 2023, Bob Bauer, personal attorney to Biden and White House Counsel for President Obama, writes to Marc Krickbaum, then-Deputy Special Counsel, and others, including several White House staffers:

    Gentlemen:

    Now that the interviews of the President have concluded, we would like to discuss with you the written presentations that we are preparing to aid in the resolution of this matter, as well as the schedule for their timely submission. To this end, we request a meeting for the purpose of hearing from you where matters stand in the case, which would enable us to focus our presentations on the issues it would be most helpful for us to address. The meeting would include both personal and White House Counsel.

    ***

    As you know, we also have an outstanding request for copies of the exhibits you provided in your interview of the President. We have noted that these exhibits would be necessary in our review of the transcripts of the interviews to check for any omissions or inaccuracies. We believe it is fair that we have access to this material at least for this purpose. This is one of the issues we would like to resolve at the meeting, along with an understanding for our planning purposes of when the interview transcript may be available for review in both audio and video form.

    In a follow-up email, he corrects himself: “…the reference to ‘video’ can, of course, be disregarded.”

    On December 21, 2023, Krickbaum writes to Rachel F. Cotton, Deputy Counsel to the President in the Office of the White House Counsel, and others showing the court reporter rejected some of the proposed edits to the Biden transcript

    Dick and Rachel,

    We had the court reporter who prepared the transcript review your suggested revisions. She accepted most of them. This table lists your revisions and then describes whether we did or did not make changes.

    We may have to send the transcript itself on the high side [classified] next week. I will let you know when we do.

    Thank you.

    Marc

    Some proposed transcript edits detailed in a chart produced by the Justice Department suggest that the Biden White House changes to the transcript might be considered an effort to cover up Biden’s mental confusion. White House suggests:

    PRESIDENT BIDEN: The date is 4-20-09. Was I still Vice President? I was, wasn’t I? Yeah. Yeah.

    Mr. Bauer: Yeah.

    President Biden: Yeah.

    On this entry, the White House attaches a note: “Audio indicates that ‘Yeah’ was said twice in succession by President Biden. Mr. Bauer did not say ‘Yeah.’

    The court reporter records:

    PRESIDENT BIDEN: The date is 4-20-09. Was I still Vice President? I was, wasn’t I? Yeah. Yeah.

    UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

    PRESIDENT BIDEN: Yeah.

    Other changes also seem significant. One seems to refer to Biden’s garage at his Delaware home, where secret documents were found.

    The White House proposed this change:

    were delivered my the garage

    The court reporter records:

    were delivered to the – my garage.

    At another point, Bien might have been confused about the name of the Secretary of Defense. The White House proposedthis change:

    Secretary of Defense? Gates

    UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Gates.

    A White House entry on that notes states: According to the audio, President Biden says “Gates” prior to the unidentified male speaker.

    The court reporter records:

                Secretary of Defense? Gates?

                UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Gates.

    The White House responds:

    The court reporter inserted a question mark that is unsupported by the audio recording. It is clear that the President said “Gates” as a statement rather than a question. We ask that the question mark be replaced with a period …

    Regarding that last entry and another, on January 3, 2024, Amish [probably Amish Shah, Senior Associate Counsel in the White house Counsel’s Office], emails Krickbaum:

    Thank you for sending. We have reviewed and are fine with almost all of the court reporter’s responses. However, we ask the SCO to reconsider the attached two corrections on Day 2. Both corrections are supported by the audio recording of the interview.

    On January 22, 2024, Krickbaum replies:

    We will send a revised transcript of the President’s interview on yellow [higher security], and attached is a revised list of edits. For the two revisions you suggested in your last email, the court reporter adopted the second and adopted a slightly modified version of the first.

    On February 28, 2024, an Executive Officer in the Special Counsel’s Office emails Free State Reporting:

    Good evening. Would you be able to come back (hopefully, the last time) on Friday, 3/1 or Monday, 3/4 (the sooner, the better? There are more edits to the President’s transcript. I’ll have an exact number tomorrow. I’m getting the computer back so it will be blank when you arrive so it will need your software on it again. It got wiped when I thought everything was finished. I’ll meet you out front with a new parking pass. My apologies for the inconvenience.

    It’s not clear what these last-minute changes were.

    We have several ongoing FOIA lawsuits about Biden’s document scandals and the related unprecedented partisan prosecutorial and judicial abuses of former President Donald J. Trump.  I will have updates for you as events warrant!

     

    Did Democrat Arizona AG Announce Trump ‘Investigation’ to Sway Election?

    Here is yet another example of “lawfare” abuse targeting Donald Trump.

    Our open records lawsuit reveals that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes seems to have used her office for political purposes in threatening a prosecution of President Trump on the eve of the 2024 presidential election (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Kris Mayes et al (No. CV 2025 00675)). Only one document was found (and kept secret) relating to a criminal investigation, while dozens of media-related documents were revealed.

    In an October 31, 2024, interview with Tucker Carlson at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Trump said of Liz Cheney: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’ “

    On November 1, 2024, Mayes, a Democrat, said during the taping of the Channel 12 “Sunday Square-Off” news show: “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws.” She conducted multiple media interviews within days of the election.

    Mayes’ office provided comments to CBS, NBC, CNN, AZ Family, Forbes, Fox, News Nation, Sky View Networks, Law and Crime News Network, Newsweek, and Reuters in what appears to be an attempt to paint Donald Trump as a criminal shortly before the election.

    The records show the threatened “investigation” of President Trump was merely an oral request from the Arizona General Mayes to a top staffer to evaluate the Liz Cheney statement.  The only record of the investigation that exists is a 3-page memo from the Attorney General’s criminal division chief back to Mayes, which the Court reviewed in camera and determined was protected attorney work product and therefore can be withheld.  Presumably (and probably from media sources) the memo declined to open a more substantial investigation or initiate a prosecution.

    The lack of records further supports our theory that the investigation—purportedly launched on the Friday before the 2024 presidential election and dropped shortly thereafter—was a sham to try to influence the outcome of the election in an important swing state.

    Mayes ended the “investigation” on November 13, 2024, telling the Arizona Republic that Trump’s comment “very likely may have been an effort to intimidate Cheney” but the investigation showed there was “no reasonable likelihood that we could obtain a conviction for Trump’s statements. We think it’s equally likely a reasonable person could conclude Trump was discussing war, and Liz Cheney not wanting to go to war.”

    We filed our lawsuit in the Superior Court for the State of Arizona, Maricopa County, this past January after Mayes’ office failed to comply with a November 12, 2024, Arizona Public Records Act request for records regarding Mayes’ office and/or the criminal division chief analyzing Trump’s statement as qualifying as a death threat; the determination whether the statement was analyzed to be a violation of Arizona and/or federal law; the costs to carry out the investigation; and any documents in which Mayes addresses the limits of free speech as addressed in the First Amendment.

    (Additionally, we asked for records regarding the dismissal of criminal charges against Arizona citizen Rebekah Massie, who was arrested during an August 20, 2024, Surprise City Council meeting after she criticized a proposed pay increase for the city attorney.

    Maricopa County Judge Gerald Williams dismissed with prejudice the trespassing charge against Massie, writing: “No branch of any federal, state, or local government in this country should ever attempt to control the content of political speech. In this case, the government did so in a manner that was objectively outrageous.”)

     

    Public Pre-K-8 “Inclusivity” Books Push Gender Transitioning, Drag Queens

    Public schools in Maryland, right next door to the nation’s capital, are definitely promoting left-wing extremist and anti-American ideas to children as young as pre-kindergarten. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the details.

    Leftwing activism has run amok in two Maryland public school districts with “inclusivity” books for elementary students that champion gender transitioning, drag queens and children’s pronoun preferences and a high school student suspended for questioning why all his classrooms do not have an American flag as state law requires. The taxpayer-funded districts are situated about an hour apart but practice the same woke ideology that has gripped academic institutions throughout the United States, a leftist conditioning that President Trump has vowed to abolish. An executive order issued in late January states that federal funding and support will be eliminated for indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology and that parental rights will be protected. “Young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed,” Trump’s order reads. “These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.”

    The order’s language is especially relevant to the first case, which involves Maryland’s largest school district,Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), with about 160,000 students in 210 campuses located a short distance from Washington D.C. In 2022 the Montgomery County Board of Education announced that students in pre-K through eighth grade would use over 20 new “inclusivity” books that promote gay pride parades, gender transitioning and pronoun preferences for kids. One book directs three and four-year-olds to search for images from a list of words that includes intersex flag, drag queen and underwear as well as the name of a celebrated LGBTQ sex worker turned activist. Other books promote gender transitioning for children, stating that it does not have to make sense and that doctors only guess when identifying a newborn’s gender. When education officials announced the district would use the pride storybooks, it assured concerned parents they would be notified so they could opt out their children. A year later the policy changed, so parents would no longer be warned.

    A group of Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian parents sued, and a federal district court and a court of appeals ruled against them so they petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed earlier this year to hear their case. A Washington D.C. nonprofit dedicated to protecting the free expression of all faiths represents the concerned parents and will argue before the nation’s highest court on April 22. Upholding parental rights meant that children would not be subjected to age-inappropriate instruction against their parents’ wishes, but the policy change denies parents the right to decide when their elementary-aged children are exposed to books promoting transgender and queer ideology, attorneys for the group say. “The Board cannot refuse parents who want to opt their children out of instruction that violates their religious beliefs on sensitive matters,” the nonprofit representing the parents further points out, adding that it is “unlawfully coming between parents and their kids and targeting them because of their religious beliefs about gender and sexuality.” That violates both Maryland law and the school board’s own policies as well as the U.S. Constitution, the religious freedom charity asserts.

    In the other case, a high school student about an hour away in Baltimore County was suspended for seven days over his patriotism. The 18-year-old, Parker Jensen, who has enlisted in the military, is a senior at Towson High School and got punished for questioning why all the classrooms in his campus do not have an American flag even though Maryland law says every classroom must have one. When school administrators failed to provide an explanation, Jensen drove to the Baltimore County Board of Education headquarters to ask about the flag violation and district officials called the police on him, according to a local news report. The high school senior was subsequently suspended for seven days. This month Jensen filed a lawsuit against Baltimore County Public Schools claiming that the district violated his Constitutional rights when it suspended him for inquiring about missing American flags in public school classrooms. “He was summarily suspended without any due process whatsoever, which every student in Baltimore County and Maryland has the right to and they stripped him of that within five seconds,” said Jensen’s attorney, who assures the student’s Constitutional rights were violated.

     

    Happy Easter!

    “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.” ~ Clarence W. Hall

    In this season, Christians around the world are celebrating the resurrection of Christ. There are no more powerful symbols of hope than the cross and the empty tomb. From me and mine, I wish you and yours all the joy of Easter! For those celebrating Passover, I wish you a Happy Passover, as well!

    Until next week,

    Source: Judicial Watch

  • News of our Boys in the Armed Forces: April 12, 1945

    News of our Boys in the Armed Forces: April 12, 1945

    Published 12:46 pm Friday, April 18, 2025

    Willie B. Barganier, CPhM, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Barganier, Rt 4, Andalusia, has graduated from Training Command Field Medical School for hospital corpsmen. CPhM. Bargainier will be assigned to a Marine Corps combat unit going into the field. Barganier was born Aug. 3, 1920, in River Falls, Al., and graduated from Red Level High School in 1940. He was employed by Andalusia Development Co. before enlisting in the Navy in Oct. 1940. He has served in Pensacola, Fl., Gulfport, Ms., Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Camp; Pendleton, Ca. He was promoted to his present rank of Chief Pharmacist Mate in Sep. 1944.

    Joseph M. Brown, Ensign, U.S. Navy Reserve, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Brown, 317 Dunson St., Andalusia, has recently been commissioned as an officer in the Navy after graduating from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School, Abbott Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago, Il. After completing the four-month school, he will be assigned to the fleet as a deck officer.

    General Dupree, Staff Sgt., U.S. Army, son of Mrs. Annie Dupree, Lulu, Fl., and husband of Mrs. Valeta Davis Dupree, Rt. 3, Andalusia, has been assigned to the base squadron, First Troop Carrier Command, Pope Field, N.C.

    Arkus M. Bray, Corporal, U.S. Army Air Corps, son of Mr. Henry G. Bray, 205 Barton St., Andalusia, has been promoted to Sergeant. Sgt. Bray is a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and has taken part in missions to bomb Giessen, Kiel and other German war production centers. He is a member of the 446th Bomb Group commanded by Col. Troy W. Crawford of El Paso. Tx. This veteran group has completed more than 200 missions as part of Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner’s 2nd Air Division. For 13 straight days in February, the Liberators bombed rail yards, road junctions, weapons storage dumps, communications and industrial systems vital to the German war effort. Before the Allied armies crossed the Rhine, the Liberators bombed enemy supply routes in the area. Sgt. Bray entered the service in Nov. 1940 and received his wings in Harlingen, Tx.

    Lonnie L. Kirkland, PVT, U.S. Army Air Corps, son of Mrs. K.V. Kirkland of Sanford, Al., is a carpenter with the ground echelons at a B-29 base in the Marianas. He and his group have been commended by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the XXI Bomber Command: “Your determination, skill, and courage have delivered a stunning blow to the empire of The Rising Sun. Combat crews and hard-working maintenance and staff people are to be heartily commended for their accomplishments during these historic operations.” Throughout eight days of sustained bombing attacks. PVT Kirkland and the ground staff worked night and day, virtually without rest, to keep the Army Air Force bombers in the air striking the enemy. PVT Kirkland entered the armed forces in Dec. 1943.

    Bob J. Willis, Capt., U.S. Army Air Corps, son of Mrs. W.C. Willis, McKenzie, Al., came home to visit his mother and his wife, Mrs. Veralyn Talley Willis, 223 Crescent St., Andalusia. Mrs. Veralyn Willis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Talley of Andalusia. Capt. Willis has just completed 21 months of service in the Pacific theater, flying transport planes, delivering our troops and supplies to the islands which we have attacked. When he arrived home on Mar. 22,

    he was greeted by his wife and two-year old son. Capt. Willis has been in the service for three and one-half years and says he likes the men who are out there doing their job. He entered service as a cadet and was commissioned as a 2nd. Lt. after nine months. He leaves Monday to report to the Army Ground Forces Distribution Center No. 2, Miami Beach, Fl.

    Corporal Malcon Caton Dies in Pacific Area

    Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Caton of Rt. 3, Red Level, have received a message from the War Department on Apr. 3rd, stating that their son, Malcon Caton, Corporal, U.S. Army Air Corps, died on March 19th on Bick Island. No information as to the cause of death was given. Corporal Caton, who was 26 years old, had been with the ground forces of the Army Air Corps since late 1943. Bick Island is one of the many islands in the Netherland Antilles group. Corporal Caton was a devout Christian and spent much of his time for the betterment of the Church. Just two days prior to his death, he had mailed his mother the sum of $30. Dollars, with a request that it be given to the church where was a member. Mr. and Mrs. Caton have another son, Captain W.R. Caton, U.S. Army Air Corps, who is serving in the European Theater of Operations in Germany. The many friends of the deceased sympathize with his immediate family in their profound loss.

    PFC. Earl R. Mock Missing in Action

    Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Mock, Rt. 1, Red Level, have received a telegram from the Adjutant General of the War Department, stating that their son, Earl J. Mock, PFC, U.S. Army, is missing in action

    since March 4, 1945. PFC Mock entered the service in June 1943 and has been serving in combat with the 30th Infantry Regiment in the European Theater. Since he went overseas in Jan. 1944, has participated in amphibious landings in France. He was wounded on Aug. 24, 1944, and spent four months in a hospital in England. He was returned to his command in Dec. 1944 and has been in combat until the time he was reported missing. PFC Mock was with his unit when they received a Regimental Citation in Jan. 1945. His parents were told that further details or information would be given as soon as received.

    Jack E. Clower Receives Air Medal

    Jack E. Clower, Flight Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps, son of Mrs. G.C. Clower of Marietta, Ga., and husband of Mrs. Martha L. Clower, 315 Dunson St., Andalusia, has been awarded the Air Medal for “exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in sustained bomber combat operations over enemy occupied continental Europe.” Flight Officer Clower is the copilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress taking part in bombing attacks over Germany. He is a member of the 384th Bomb Group, a veteran unit that has completed more than 300 missions in the European theater. Clower graduated from Andalusia High School and was employed at Brookley Field in Mobile prior to joining the military in 1943.

    — John Vick

    Source: Andalusia Star

  • US House Committee Urges BofA & JPM To Abandon Chinese Firm’s IPO Deal

    US House Committee Urges BofA & JPM To Abandon Chinese Firm’s IPO Deal

    “If JPMorgan and Bank of America proceed with this IPO, they risk complicity in underwriting genocide, undermining American industry, and endangering U.S. service members,”

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    Chairman John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on China urged JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to withdraw from the Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology’s (CATL) initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, citing “serious national security threats and due diligence failures.”

    “If JPMorgan and Bank of America proceed with this IPO, they risk complicity in underwriting genocide, undermining American industry, and endangering U.S. service members,” Moolenaar stated in a press release, referring to the letter he sent the heads of JPM and BofA. 

    He continued: “The letters outline serious national security threats and due diligence failures. The company’s reported aggressive pursuit of the CATL deal, despite its low fee structure and their defense ties, adds to concerns over risk and regulatory oversight,” adding, “As Chairman, I am closely monitoring how major financial institutions engage with companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party. The House Select Committee on China is actively examining these relationships, and we urge JPMorgan and Bank of America to prioritize national security and human rights in their decision-making.”

    Moolenaar emphasized that CATL was designated as a “Chinese military company” under Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act earlier this year.

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    JPM and BofA’s potential participation in the HK IPO “directly aids the Chinese Communist Party’s military buildup and ongoing human rights abuses,” the chairman of the House Select Committee on China warned.

    Moolenaar noted that CATL has ties “to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)—a sanctioned paramilitary entity involved in the genocide of Uyghur Muslims—and its role in modernizing China’s submarine fleet with advanced lithium-ion batteries.”

    According to public trade data compiled by counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence firm Sayari, CATL is 1 to 3 hops away from entities with “high” to “elevated” forced labor concerns

    Public data shows that Tesla is a major buyer of lithium-ion batteries from the Chinese entity.

    Well ahead of the incoming US crackdown on CATL, we asked back in August 2024: “Is Tesla At Risk From Marco Rubio’s Push to ‘Blacklist’ Chinese Battery Firm CATL?”

    Followed by this note at the beginning of the year.

    Just a warning to investors: some in the Trump administration are very serious about the “nuclear option” on delisting Chinese stocks.

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  • Coach accused of luring teen to locker room for community service hours and making sexual comments

    POLK COUNTY, Fla. (TCN) — A high school football coach faces charges after allegedly making inappropriate sexual comments to teens, including to one victim he lured into a locker room under the guise of community service.

    According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, on April 2, a parent reported “inappropriate conversations” Tyler Eden reportedly had with their daughter when she met with Eden for community service hours. Upon further investigation, detectives learned Eden allegedly asked a 16-year-old student to help him sort football helmets in the locker room.

    Authorities allege Eden talked to the student about a “teacher who wanted to have sex with him in the locker room,” and the victim said she “didn’t want to talk about that.” According to the sheriff’s office, the victim told officials Eden continued the conversation anyway and said he was married but “still wanted to engage in sexual activity with the teacher.”

    The student reportedly helped perform community service tasks again the following day. Authorities allege that while she was breaking down boxes, the zipper on her hoodie broke, but all she had on was a bra underneath. The student reportedly asked Eden for a T-shirt to cover up. Eden allegedly reached out and completely unzipped her jacket, and the student said she felt uncomfortable.

    Eden tried to help fix the zipper and eventually gave the victim a shirt, so she went into a different locker area to change. Sheriff Grady Judd alleges Eden watched her and commented on how “pretty” her bra was. Eden allegedly kept saying there were no cameras in the locker room. Investigators said Eden told the student not to report the interaction, but she later told her parents and school staff about the incident.

    According to the sheriff’s office, Eden told school administrators that he “only provided the student with a shirt.” When school staff said they were going to place him on administrative leave, Eden allegedly admitted that he tried to fix the student’s zipper at her request.

    Detective discovered there were two other alleged victims, both female students. One of them reportedly said that Eden “told her there were no cameras in the locker rooms and how it would be ‘easy to do certain things in there.’” Eden also allegedly made comments to the victim about his popularity and how another teacher wanted to engage in sexual activity with him in the locker room.

    The third victim reportedly told authorities Eden asked her what she wanted to do after graduation, and she said she wanted to become a gynecologist. Eden allegedly said that he would make a good gynecologist “because he liked to perform oral sex on women.” When Eden asked her if she wanted to earn community service hours, she turned him down.

    In a press conference, Judd said investigators believe there are other victims out there, and the sheriff suspects Eden “wanted to have sex with these children.” He added, “This guy is a total creep, and now he’s going to jail. We are not going to tolerate school teachers and coaches preying on our children.”

    Eden was booked into the Polk County Jail on charges of lewd offense against a student by an authority figure, lewd and lascivious touching of a minor, and voyeurism.

    Eden reportedly started working at Bartow High School in 2019 and has been the school’s head football coach since 2023.

    • PCSO arrests Bartow High teacher for inappropriate behavior and voyeurism – Polk County Sheriff’s Office
    • Arrest of BHS teacher/coach Tyler Eden – Polk County Sheriff’s Office

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Lady Bulldogs ride three-game winning streak; secure home field for first round of playoffs

    Lady Bulldogs ride three-game winning streak; secure home field for first round of playoffs

    Published 12:50 pm Friday, April 18, 2025

    Andalusia’s Jessa Ann Dubose slides home under the tag attempt of Charles Henderson pitcher Janazia Cantlow.

    The Andalusia Lady Bulldogs had a successful week, winning three games, including wins over a county rival and an area opponent, as well as coming out victorious in an extra-inning battle.

    The Lady Bulldogs improved its record to 25-8 on the season with only two games remaining in the regular season with home dates against Luverne on Tuesday and Trinity Presbyterian on Thursday.

    With the area victory over Charles Henderson, the Lady Bulldogs won the area and will host the first round of the playoffs on Friday, April 25.

    Andalusia 15, Charles Henderson 0

    It took only three innings for the Lady Bulldogs to take care of area opponent Charles Henderson Thursday.

    Andalusia scored 10 runs in the first inning and five in the second. Meanwhile, pitcher Kailey Jackson gave up only one hit, while striking out five, in three innings of play.

    Jackson also shined at the plate, leading the team with two hits, including a double, and three RBI. McKenzie Barrow also had two hits with two RBI and a run scored. Overall the team had eight hits in 16 plate appearances.

    Andalusia 3, Dothan 2

    The Andalusia Lady Bulldogs went to Dothan where they battled for an extra-inning win over the Lady Wolves, 3-2.

    Andalusia got things going early with a run in the top of the first. Taya Newton led the game off with a single to center and after a sacrifice by Austin Seal, came in to score after a wild pitch followed by a passed ball.

    Dothan evened things up in a hurry, leading off their half of the inning with a solo homer to centerfield. They took the lead in the bottom of the single after a pair of singles made the score 2-1.

    Pitching and defense dominated the next few innings, but in the top of the fifth, the Lady Bulldogs tied the game at 2-2 when Stella Wells, who was hit by a pitch earlier, scored on a ground ball by Sara Katherine Reese.

    The two teams struggled to get another run home as the game went into extra innings.

    To begin the eighth inning, Seal was placed at second based on extra-inning rules. Reese followed with a line-drive to centerfield and Seal went around the bases to beat the throw to home plate, lifting Andalusia to a 3-2 lead.

    The Lady Wolves went three-and-out in the bottom of the inning to secure the victory for Andalusia.

    The Lady Bulldogs got another gem from Kailey Jackson in the circle. She pitched the full eight innings giving up two runs on six hits while striking out four.

    Seal led the offense, going two-for-three with a run scored. Reese had one hit with two RBI and Newton had a hit and a walk with one run scored.

    Andalusia 10, Florala 0

    The Andalusia Lady Bulldogs traveled south for an in-county date against the Florala Lady Wildcats and returned home with a 10-0 shutout victory behind a full-game effort of pitcher Kailey Jackson.

    With the win, the Lady Bulldogs improve its overall record to 23-8 on the season.

    Andalusia got things going quickly with a leadoff single by Taya Newton started the game. After stealing second, Newton came home on a base hit by Sarah Katherine Reese to take a 1-0 lead.

    The offense really got going for the Lady Bulldogs in the top of the third. Newton, who would go four-for-four in the game, once again came through in the leadoff spot, this time starting things off with a double. Austin Seal hit a fly ball that fell for a single. Another fly ball by Reese was misplayed by the defense, bringing Newton home for a 2-0 lead. Seal scored on a single by McKenzie Barrow and Jessa Ann Dubose rounded out the third-inning scoring, coming home on a fielder’s choice play as Andalusia took a 4-0 lead.

    Andalusia doubled its score total in the top of the fourth. A fielding error off the bat of Blakelyn Bass, followed by consecutive walks to Newton and Seal, loaded the bases. A sacrifice fly by Dubose brought Newton home, for a 5-0 lead. An error led to the sixth run for the Lady Bulldogs and then a two-out single by Barrow brought in Wood and Dubose.

    Newton put an exclamation point on her good day at the plate and rounded out the scoring for the Lady Bulldogs with a two-run homer to centerfield.

    With her four hits, which included a double and a homerun, Newton had two RBI and scored four runs for Andalusia. Barrow went three-for-four at the plate with a double and three RBI. Seal and Reese each had two hits for Andalusia.

    Jackson was dominant on the mound for Andalusia, pitching a complete game shutout and surrendering only one hit over seven innings. She notched nine strikeouts.

    Source: Andalusia Star

  • NGOs Received Billions From EU Commission to Lobby for Leftist Causes

    NGOs Received Billions From EU Commission to Lobby for Leftist Causes

    Thousands of NGOs were funded with taxpayer cash to promote so-called EU values and advance left-wing causes ~Germany’s Focus magazine

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    Corruption concerns have been raised amid an investigation into the billions handed out from the EU to NGOs, allegedly in exchange for lobbying efforts on behalf of the European Commission to advance left-wing causes such as the green agenda.

    The European Court of Auditors has found that between 2021 and 2023, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) received a total of €7.4 ($8.4) billion from the EU, including 4.8 billion euros from the governing Commission and another 2.6 billion euros from member states.

    Thousands of NGOs were funded with taxpayer cash to promote so-called EU values and advance left-wing causes on immigration, environmentalism, and even lobbying for the ban on combustion engine cars, Germany’s Focus magazine reported.

    The Court of Auditors report, which found that there was “no reliable overview of EU funding granted to NGOs”,  raised concerns that some such organisations were disguising themselves as NGOs to lobby politicians on behalf of their own economic interests while claiming to be non-profits or by government actors using the groups to advance their own ends clandestinely.

    An unnamed research facility in the textile and cosmetics industry, which claimed to be an NGO to receive EU funding, was identified by the Court of Auditors as having pursued the “business interests of its predominantly for-profit members” while maintaining a non-profit status.

    The watchdog report found: “Across EU countries, the definition of what an NGO is varies, and is rarely enshrined in national legislation. In 2024, the EU essentially defined an NGO as being independent from government and a non-profit organisation. While this is a step in the right direction, the definition alone cannot ensure that NGOs are correctly classified in the EU’s financial transparency system.

    “This is because entities self-declare as NGOs, and the Commission does not check important aspects of their status, including whether a government exerts significant influence over their governing bodies or whether an NGO pursues its members’ commercial interests.”

    The investigation was launched following the Qatargate scandal, which broke in 2022. Mostly leftist European Parliament representatives and officials have been accused of accepting bribes and other perks from the Islamic kingdom of Qatar as well as from Morocco and Mauritania to promote their agendas within the EU. It has been claimed that some of the payments allegedly given to Eurocrats were funnelled through NGOs.

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