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Jeb Boasberg’s “Criminal Contempt” Finding Makes Mockery of Separation of Powers

Jeb Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. District Court, sure has a knack for timing.

As the national conversation this week revolves around accusations the Trump administration is defying court orders by refusing to return an illegal El Salvadoran, er “Maryland father,” back to the U.S., Boasberg swooped in Wednesday afternoon with a lengthy opinion accusing the administration of “criminal contempt” for ignoring a set of orders he issued on March 15. (I first wrote about Boasberg’s contempt trap on March 19.)

In a series of hasty decisions that day, Boasberg, in another instance of fortuitous timing for foes of the Trump administration as I explained here, halted the deportation of illegal Venezuelans covered by the president’s Alien Enemies Act (AEA) proclamation, which Trump had been signed the night before. Boasberg issued two written temporary restraining orders—one prohibiting the deportation of five unnamed illegal Venezuelans represented in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and another one turning the five plaintiffs into a class action suit protecting anyone in custody subject to the AEA.

And during an emergency hearing held that Saturday evening, Boasberg also issued what he describes as an “oral command” at around 6:45 p.m. to return planes carrying the newly-designated class of illegals. “[Any] plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,” Boasberg told the Department of Justice attorney present at the hearing. “However that’s accomplished, whether turning around a plane or not embarking anyone on the plane or those people covered by this on the plane, I leave to you. But this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately.”

The problem, as Boasberg appears to have known at that time, is that two planes carrying the AEA subjects had already departed and were out of U.S. territory. His “oral command” was impossible to obey or to enforce. (Complicating matters further is Boasberg did not include the “oral command” in his written order published about 40 minutes later.)

The alleged defiance of the two written orders—which were both vacated on April 7 by the Supreme Court after a majority concluded Boasberg’s courtroom was the wrong jurisdiction and the ACLU sought the wrong type of relief—and his “oral command” represent the basis of Boasberg’s contempt allegations. And Boasberg appears prepared to name a court-appointed attorney if the Trump DOJ refuses to bring charges against the yet-unidentified officials he accuses of contempt.

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Former FAA contractor pleads guilty to spying for Iran, sharing private info on US airports, energy industry

A naturalized U.S. citizen living in Great Falls, Virginia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to working with Iranian government and intelligence officials on their behalf in the U.S. as a contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) between 2017 and 2024.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said 42-year-old Abouzar Rahmati pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Iranian government in the U.S. without prior notification to the Attorney General.

Rahmati previously was an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) 1st Lt., a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, from June 2009 to May 2010. The IRGC is a designated terrorist group by the U.S. government.

Court documents show that from at least December 2017 through June 2024, Rahmati worked with Iranian intelligence operatives and government officials on their behalf in the U.S.

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EPA Chief Sounds Alarm On Rogue Climate Group Launching Sulfur Dioxide Balloons To Geo-Engineer Earth

Rogue climate activists in Northern California are launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere in an effort to manipulate the Earth’s temperature. In exchange, the climate startup behind the operation sells “cooling credits” priced at $30 for a subscription or $5 to offset 1 ton of carbon dioxide. The startup’s unregulated operations are causing a major stir and have drawn the attention of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. 

“Make Sunsets is a startup that is geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling “cooling credits.” This company is polluting the air we breathe. I’ve instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action,” Zeldin wrote on X.

Luke Iseman, the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, launched Make Sunsets a few years ago with the backing of Boost VC, Draper Associates, Pioneer Fund, and angel investors. 

Make Sunsets takes its name from the striking sunsets caused by high-altitude sulfur dioxide particles, like those observed after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which temporarily lowered global temperatures by roughly .2°C for about a year.

Allowing rogue activists to play God with the climate is a disaster waiting to happen. These aerosols increase Earth’s albedo (reflectivity), causing temporary global cooling and potentially disrupting jet stream behavior. 

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‘Free Melo’: Karmelo Anthony’s friends, family sell merch in support of Austin Metcalf’s admitted killer

Friends and relatives of 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, the Texas high school student accused of fatally stabbing another teen, are promoting t-shirts with his face on them with slogans like “FreeMelo” and “#Justice4KarmeloAnthony.” When he was taken into custody after the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco High School track meet, Anthony admitted that he was the killer.

A website selling the shirts describes Anthony as “just a small town kid, raised in a loving two parent household,” and goes on to paint a portrait of him as a model youth.

“Karmelo, A 4.0 student. A football team captain. A leader, a protector, a role model. Karmelo Anthony is the kind of young man every parent hopes to raise. He speaks with respect. He takes care of his younger siblings and little cousins. He works hard, stays out of trouble, and carries himself with dignity,” the website states.

Anthony was arrested earlier this month after authorities said he stabbed fellow student Austin Metcalf during a confrontation at a high school track meet. According to police, the dispute began when Metcalf told Anthony he was sitting under the wrong team’s tent and asked him to leave. A witness claimed Anthony replied, “Touch me and see what happens,” before the altercation turned physical. Metcalf was fatally stabbed and died in the arms of his twin brother.

Anthony has been under house arrest in a $900,000 rental home located in a gated community, having been released on a $250,000 bond that was reduced from $1 million. The Daily Mail reported that the family also recently acquired a new vehicle. In court, Anthony’s father said they intended to use the crowdsourced legal funds to move house amid “racist threats.”

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Sen. Warren Introduces Bill to Tighten Ethics Standards for Musk and Other Special Government Employees

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has announced new legislation that will subject Elon Musk and other “special government employees” (SGEs) to the same ethics rules as other federal employees. 

Warren said the legislation was prompted by Musk’s close advisory access to President Donald Trump, coupled with the fact that Musk’s companies have been the recipients of billions in government contracts and subsidies for over a decade.

Her proposed legislation aims to prevent conflicts of interest by preventing SGEs from communicating with government agencies whose work overlaps with their business interests. 

The bill “would apply standard ethics rules to SGEs starting on the SGE’s 61st day in government,” would require the Office of Government Ethics to sign off on any conflict-of-interest waivers issued to SGEs, and make such waivers public. 

A fact sheet on the bill states that “While most ethics laws for regular federal employees apply to SGEs, some apply more loosely and others do not apply at all.”

It would also allow public access to some SGE financial disclosures and require the Office of Personnel Management to keep a list of which federal workers are designated as SGEs. 

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UK Police Being Forced To Undergo Training To Accept Their ‘White Privilege’

One of Britain’s largest police forces is mandating “equity training” for officers, focusing on “white privilege”, “micro-aggressions” and the distinction between “non-racist versus anti-racist.”

The Telegraph reports that Thames Valley Police is putting officers through the training despite a tribunal last year finding that the force positively discriminated against white officers.

As we highlighted, the force appointed an Asian detective inspector without considering white officers for promotions.

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US Mulls Ground War In Yemen Via Mercenaries, Pro-Saudi Factions

Bloomberg reports Wednesday that the United States is currently in talks with Saudi-supported Yemeni forces (who have long fought the Houthi rebels) to cobble together a possible new land offensive to send against the Shia militant group which is allied to Iran.

“Yemeni forces opposed to the Houthis are in talks with the US and Gulf Arab allies about a possible land offensive to oust the militant group from the Red Sea coast, according to people involved in the discussions,” Bloomberg writes.

The report follows with, “The conversations come about a month into a US-led aerial assault against the Houthis ordered by President Donald Trump, an operation yet to achieve its aim of ending the Iran-backed group’s attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, a vital trade route, and Israel.”

And The Wall Street Journal first reported Monday that the US is considering a ground assault, given the Houthis have proven impossible to dislodge merely through airstrikes, which have been intense and ongoing since March 15.

The group in question is the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) of former Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The PLC is the ‘internationally recognized’ government, but which is now based in Saudi Arabia (in exile), given the Houthis have de fact control over most of the country.

The Saudi-UAE-US coalition had already waged an aerial as well as proxy ground war from 2015 to 2022, which killed hundreds of thousand of people and blocked vital resources for the starved population, but the whole campaign did nothing to oust the Houthis – in fact quite the opposite as they became entrenched in the most important strategic sites.

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A false flag is about to be unmasked

Frontline news has it that very soon the city of Konstantinovka (or Konstantinyvka, as it was ridiculously renamed by the Banderites, like so many other geographical locales, including Kiev, in a puerile attempt to disguise their historically Russian identity) will soon be under the control of Russian forces. That is good news for the inhabitants of Konstantinovka, but it is unpleasant news for SBU, the Ukrainian state security service. Konstantinovka’s imminent liberation means that SBU’s September 6 2023 false flag operation, which cost the lives of at least seventeen civilians in an attempt to pin on Russians the blame for the massacre they had themselves staged, is about to be exposed.

The SBU-organized Konstantinovka massacre is part of a pattern of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Kiev regime. Bucha (masterfully deconstructed by the Russian delegation at the UN Security Council) and Kramatorsk are other prime examples. None of these crimes had any military purpose or significance whatsoever but were conceived and committed by the Kiev regime exclusively in order to reap propaganda benefits. But whilst the poor victims are all dead or maimed, the intended propaganda benefits have largely eluded the sloppy organisers of these criminal acts.

Fortunately, SBU’s criminality is matched only by its ineptness. Many of its schemes have fallen apart due to the utter incompetence of their personnel. Consequently, most of their false flag operations were exposed with relative ease soon after they were carried out. In that regard, the Konstantinovka slaughter of innocent civilians that they enacted in 2023 was not an exception.

This is a good opportunity to briefly outline the nature of false flag operations. They are primarily undertaking of a political or propaganda nature. They consist of the execution of a criminal act by one actor in a manner that the blame can be plausibly shifted to another actor, whilst the real perpetrator remains undetected and shielded from responsibility.

The expression “false flag” originated in the 16th century and referred to the intentional misrepresentation of someone’s true allegiance, initially in naval confrontations. The object of the ruse was for a naval vessel to fly the flag of a neutral or enemy country in order to hide its true identity so that the hostile act and the resulting damage would be attributed to the power under whose falsely flown flag the damage was inflicted.

Since the 16th century, when this practice was initiated, successful concealment of the perpetrator’s true identity has become an immensely complicated enterprise due to the development of efficient technologies capable of uncovering most types of deception, especially when it is attempted by practitioners who are unskilled. That has proved to be a major handicap for the Kiev regime and its security services. As a result, most of their trickery tends to fall flat and is exposed with remarkable rapidity.

The Kramatorsk incident is a classic example. Ukrainian forces targeted the city’s railway station, killing several dozen civilians who happened to be there, in the expectation that with the assistance of the collective West media apparatus the blame for the massacre would easily be attributed to the Russian side. The sloppy Ukrainian perpetrators however failed to remove numerical markings from the “Tochka-U” projectile that they used, which clearly linked it to the weapons stock known to be in the possession of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Perhaps inadvertently, an Italian journalist who happened to be in Kramatorsk, took a snapshot of missile debris after the attack.

Once the missile markings that were visible in the photograph were magnified and forensically examined, the game was up. It was clearly established that the lethal instrument originated from Ukraine’s military arsenal. Without much further ado both Ukrainian and Western propaganda outlets dropped the matter, forgetting completely the victims that, until literally the day before, they had been mourning with touching devotion whilst condemning scathingly the attack that they had themselves perpetrated as proof of “Russian barbarism”.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Shuts Down US Censorship Agency Remnants

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has officially ordered the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) office, ending a controversial chapter in what he described as a “shameful” period of federally sanctioned speech suppression.

The move dismantles the only formal office in the department tasked with countering foreign propaganda but, as Secretary Rubio and many others have noticed, it had morphed into something far more troubling: a taxpayer-funded engine that repeatedly ended up silencing American voices.

“For centuries, the United States served as a beacon of hope for millions of people around the world,” Rubio said in a statement. “Over the last decade though, individuals in America have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for simply voicing their opinions…That ends today.”

His decision to eliminate R/FIMI follows years of escalating concern over how programs meant to counter foreign disinformation have instead repeatedly targeted domestic speech.

The office, created in late 2024 as a scaled-down continuation of the now-defunct Global Engagement Center (GEC), claimed to focus exclusively on foreign influence campaigns. Yet evidence increasingly showed that both R/FIMI and its predecessor were entangled in activities that penalized Americans for their political views.

While framed as a defensive measure against foreign adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran, the actual outcomes of these efforts routinely involved actions that resulted in blacklisting American media outlets, throttling their reach online, and labeling dissenting opinions as dangerous misinformation. The censorship was indirect but impactful: through partnerships with nonprofits and tech platforms, GEC-funded projects influenced what Americans could say, see, and share.

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Covid Vaccines Make People Spike Protein Factories For One Year After Injection – Study

A study published April 9 discovered that the bodies of young adults who received the mRNA Covid gene therapy vaccines produced spike proteins for a year or more after injection, effectively turning them into Covid spike protein factories at the genetic level. Media outlet Natural News referred to these DNA changes, which created the ‘new human’ as ‘transhumanism‘.

“The findings of this study indicated that COVID-19 vaccination resulted in an increase in cytokine levels, which signifies the persistence of the humoral immune response to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines,” the study said in the ‘Conclusion’ section. “This effect may be attributed to the persistent production of spike protein and highly inflammatory nature of mRNA–lipid nanoparticle. Additionally, the results suggested differences in cytokine levels based on gender and age. Notably, the cytokine profile remains favorably altered in young adults who received mRNA vaccinations, even after 1 year.”

The research focused on the mRNA gene therapy injections, however it should be noted the viral vector (adenoviral-based) gene therapy injections preform a different series of steps to similarly mutate the DNA of the vaccinated. The study described how these two gene therapies altered the DNA so that it produces the spike protein.

“The COVID-19 genetic vaccines, including adenoviral-based vaccines (developed by AstraZeneca and Janssen) and messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines (developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna), contain genetic instructions that enable human cells to produce a viral antigen,” the study said in the ‘Introduction’ section. “These vaccines are designed to stimulate the immune system and initiate a protective immune response against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The specific immune activation mechanisms can vary depending on the type of vaccine used. For instance, monovalent mRNA vaccines, such as the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccines, stimulate mRNA to produce spike protein found on the virus’ surface. This spike protein then triggers an immune response, leading to the production of antibodies and activation of immune cells. On the other hand, protein subunit vaccines like the NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax) contain specific viral proteins, that is, the spike protein, which prompt the immune system to recognize and respond to the virus. Some protein subunit vaccines may also include adjuvants to enhance the immune response. The SARS-CoV-2 mRNA, encoding the virus’s pathogenic spike protein, is encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles and delivered intramuscularly, where it enters host cell cytoplasm to hijack ribosomes for spike protein synthesis via translation.”

While the Covid shot recipient’s genes are mutated to produce the organ-damaging spike protein, the injection also administers dangerous amounts of DNA contamination which can increase cancer risk. Luckily however, a novel process has been developed to combat the harmful spike protein.

Last week’s study was conducted via measuring cytokine levels before and after vaccination.

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