The Republicans, and the MAGAt media, spend hours promoting the idea that immigrants are creating a terrible crime wave. It is a blatant lie, as anyone can ascertain in five minutes searching the internet. Here is what you find:
The Southern states demonstrate significantly higher murder rates than the rest of the country, with Mississippi leading at a rate of 23.7 homicides per 100,000 people, followed by Louisiana at 21.3, and Alabama at 15.9.
In stark contrast, the Northeast carries the lowest homicide rates.
Unfortunately, the MAGAt Whites who make up the Trump base are not smart enough to do that, they just listen to the lies of the Fox propaganda network, IMAX and the others, all of which spread the migrant crime story.
Immigrants Credit: Qian Weizhong / VCG / Newscom
“The United States is being overrun by the Biden migrant crime. It’s a new form of vicious violation to our country,” said former President Donald Trump during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday.
Trump’s remarks come at a tense moment in the nation’s sentiment toward immigration. Americans now say that immigration is “the most important problem facing the U.S.,” according to the results of a Gallup poll published this week. Earlier in February, 57 percent of Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center said that “the large number of migrants seeking to enter the country leads to more crime.” For many, those ideas became more salient last week, when Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan man who immigrated to the U.S. illegally, was charged with the murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley.
Riley’s murder, along with incidents such as migrants drinking alcohol and consuming drugs in public and getting into fights in New York City, have spurred increased coverage of a “migrant crime” wave. “Over the past month, Fox News […]
If you have ever spent half an hour watching and listening to Fox propaganda spokesperson, Maria Bartiromo, you learn quickly that she has no ethics, is a compulsive liar, and MAGAt ideologue. What makes her interesting to me is that she says out loud what Trump’s MAGAt base believes and says amongst themselves. They don’t want America to be a democracy.
Maria Bartiromo attends a speech by President Donald Trump at the Economic Club Of New York in the Grand Ballroom of the Midtown Hilton Hotel on November 12, 2019 in New York City. Credit: Steven Ferdman / WireImage
Fox News Business anchor Maria Bartiromo is attacking the Biden administration’s efforts to encourage American citizens to register to vote. In interviews with several Republicans on Friday she claimed the federal government outreach only helps elect Democrats.
“Okay, so what are you all doing about it on the Republican side?” Bartiromo asked House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise Friday morning. “As the government, Biden’s government, Biden’s administration seems to be using a whole on government approach to get people to vote Democrat?”
Sticking to GOP talking points, Scalise suggested it is “the weaponization of government.”
Bartiromo had cited an article on the right-wing website The Federalist, “9 Ways The Feds Are Using ‘Bidenbucks’ To Rig The 2024 Election,” that details ways the administration is helping or encouraging Americans to register to vote. There is no such […]
Alexandra Sharp, Contributing Writer - Foreign Policy World Brief
Stephan:
As thuggish as Putin is — I met him once in Moscow there is a reptilian quality about him — I don’t think he is crazy enough to use a nuclear weapon. I read this as an attempt to threaten Sweden and Finland who have just joined NATO, because those new members have made the Baltic Sea a NATO lake, and that has totally freaked out Putin and his political servants that make up the Russian government. But the Russian could miscalculate and make a mistake and that would lead to a complete change in the course of international history.
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons against NATO members that deploy forces to Ukraine in his annual State of the Nation address on Thursday. The more than two-hour-long speech contained one of Putin’s most explicit nuclear warnings yet against the West. “All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilization. Don’t they get that?” he said.
Putin’s comments were in reference to French President Emmanuel Macron suggesting on Monday that NATO should not rule out deploying foreign troops to Ukraine. Leaders of other Western powers, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and senior U.S. officials, quickly rejected that possibility. Putin, meanwhile, dismissed the idea that Russia would spread the conflict into other European countries, calling it “nonsense.” But he added that “tragic consequences” would occur if foreign troops were to become involved in the war.
NATO members have previously warned that Russia could test the alliance’s collective defense clause (known as Article 5) within the next three to five years. If that were to occur, experts believe that Russia might […]
Americans have a significantly shorter life span than people in other developed democracies and notably worse health, much greater obesity, heart disease, cancer and on and on. Why? Well, a large part of the answer is the crappy American diet. What can you do to live longer and be healthier? Stop eating processed foods. Eat only organic food. I know it costs more but it is far cheaper than your medical expenses would be. Read this article and build your diet accordingly.
A review of research involving almost 10 million people has found a direct association between eating too many ultra-processed foods — those breads, cereals, snacks and frozen meals that have been industrially manufactured with flavors and additives to make them more palatable — and more than 30 health conditions, including heart disease, anxiety and early death.
Now, a team of international researchers has undertaken a comprehensive review of the evidence on adverse health outcomes to date — examining 45 “pooled meta-analyses” from 14 review articles involving nearly 10 million people. All were published in the past three years, and none was funded by companies making ultra-processed food.
Senator Bernie Sanders is one the few people in Congress with any integrity, and he has been dedicated all his adult life to fostering wellbeing for all. What he is saying here is the truth, “”The United States remains the world’s dominant military power,” the senator continued. “Alone, we account for roughly 40% of global military spending; the U.S. spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined, most of whom are allies. Last year, we spent more than three times what China spent on its military.” The fact is you and I each year are milked like captive cows. President Eisenhower warned us this would happen, and the way these corporations got away with it, is that they first rented the the members of Congress and told them to pass no laws that would damage their profits, and they didn’t. So we don’t pass enough funding to feed our children, but there is essentially no limit on the murder corporations.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) presides over a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on November 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch / Getty
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a novel way to stop military-industrial complex profiteers from “bilking the American people”—and it’s actually over 80 years old.
In an article published Tuesday in The Atlantic, Sanders (I-Vt.) called for a revived Truman Committee—a World War II-era bipartisan congressional panel “designed to rein in defense contractors, closely oversee military contracts, and take back excessive payments.”
“America’s national priorities are badly misplaced,” the senator asserted. “Our country spends, with almost no debate, nearly $1 trillion a year on the military while at the same time ignoring massive problems at home. We apparently have unlimited amounts of money for nuclear weapons, fighter planes, bombs, and tanks. But somehow we can’t summon the resources to provide healthcare for all, childcare, affordable housing, and other basic needs.”
“The United States remains the world’s dominant military power,” the senator continued. “Alone, we account for roughly 40% of […]
